Testing COVID-19 tests faces methodological challenges

Antibodies testing, Immunity and immunity passport in Covid-19

The global outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has affected most countries in the world. Our knowledge of diagnostic tests for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is evolving, and it is important to have a clear understanding of the nature of the tests and the interpretation of their findings. In this paper, the purpose is to interpret the results of two typ...

Assessing Educational Harms and Challenges of Covid-19

Background and Objectives: As a result of the Covid-19 outbreak in Iran and other countries of the world, face-to-face training in schools and universities was changed to distance eductaion, which has had different consequences. The purpose of this study was to identify and categorize educational harms and challenges using existing measures and evidence from recent international data. The resul...

COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and approaches in blood transfusions

One of the goals of the Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization is to provide adequate healthy blood and reduce the risk of various viral and bacterial transmission infections. With the removal of alternative blood donation, all blood units and blood products are provided through voluntary blood donation in Iran. The Blood Transfusion Organization screens the donated blood according to standard ...

Challenges in Testing: How OpenSourceRouting tests Quagga

This paper discusses the details how OpenSourceRouting tests Quagga and the challenges on testing a multi-platform application, supporting many different OS variations, CPU architectures and a community of various volunteers and commercial users. The goal of the talk is to give some inspiration to other projects on how to approach this and start a discussion.

Challenges on Hospital Fire Safety during COVID-19 Crisis