Articles about Seattle Flu Study

Microsoft and Facebook vet leads nonprofit making software to improve COVID-19 rapid tests

A Seattle-based nonprofit launched to provide digital health solutions for poorer countries is applying its expertise to help with COVID-19… Read More

Genetic sleuths flesh out the story of how coronavirus got its start in Washington

Detailed genetic analyses of the strains of virus that cause COVID-19 suggest that the outbreak took hold in Washington state… Read More

Coronavirus-tracking project backed by Bill Gates is put on hold due to FDA concerns

The organizers of the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network, a virus-tracking project supported by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, say their efforts… Read More

Seattle researchers report early results from first US ‘swab and send’ COVID-19 surveillance program

Updated below with details from news conference. Early results from a first-of-its-kind at-home testing program for COVID-19, analyzing more than… Read More

Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network launches with boost from Bill Gates, Amazon and volunteers

The scientific sleuths who tracked down the origins of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak in the Seattle area have announced a… Read More

Report: Amazon and Gates Foundation aim to team up with scientists on home test kits for coronavirus

Amazon Care is offering assistance to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a plan to deliver coronavirus test kits… Read More

Coronavirus sleuths say they still see a ‘path forward’ after regulatory snag

Regulators have blocked the Seattle Flu Study’s guerrilla effort to trace the spread of novel coronavirus, citing ethical concerns, but… Read More

How to cope with Seattle’s coronavirus outbreak? Pretend that you’re snowed in

Fresh projections suggest that 1,100 people in Washington state have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and that the outbreak… Read More

Got the flu? Seattle wants to swab your nose for a massive health data project

Calling all feverish, coughing, achy Seattleites: Your germs could help prevent the next big pandemic. At least, that’s the hope… Read More