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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced families globally to self-quarantine at home, and research shows domestic violence increases when people are at home together, said Northwestern University's Lori Post.
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Consumer reactions to Coronavirus outbreak in March, prior to US lockdown, show which were "extremely concerned" versus which were "not at all concerned."

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new model to help U.S. states allocate and share ventilators and other life-saving resources in the fight against COVID-19.

Northwestern Medicine infectious disease and microbiology-immunology experts will discuss the latest COVID-19 data and trends during a webinar entitled “COVID-19: Global Emergence, Epidemiology and Response" Friday, April 3, from noon to 1 p.m. (C.T.)
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Researchers at Northwestern have developed a new platform that could produce new covid-19 therapeutics more than 10 times faster than current methods.

As the U.S. battles to gain more access to COVID-19 swabs and testing kits, the next step will be to determine who has developed immunity to the virus, and that will be done through serology testing.
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Northwestern University is launching a series of virtual roundtables with industry leaders representing the transportation, logistics and supply chain industries who are coping with COVID-19.

By analyzing movie data from 1910 to 2010, researchers found that female representation in the film industry hit an all-time low during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Northwestern Medicine has enrolled its first participants in a new clinical drug trial for COVID-19. The drug being tested is a novel anti-viral drug developed to treat Ebola and which has been found to have antiviral activity against coronaviruses.

A new smartphone app is helping parents ease the stress of parenting a baby in the NICU, especially during the extremely limited visitation parents are experiencing during the COVID-19 outbreak.