11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
[ACC25-11] Research life under COVID19 in Colorado, USA
★Invited Papers
Keywords:SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Research in the USA
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), started from Wuhan, China in December 2019, was spread all over the world very rapidly. Even after more than one year from the first report (written on 3 February 2021), pandemics have never been unrestrained.
In this presentation, I will report the research situation and activities under COVID-19 at Colorado State University (CSU), where I had worked as a Research Scientist by the end of 2020. After the pandemic surged, even all staff worked remotely at their homes, online workshops about COVID-19 was organized every week by faculty staff in the CSU. That impressed me (as a typical Japanese scientist) how quickly scientists organized the community and developed new sciences. In November 2020, CSU started operating the system to detect SARS-CoV-2 from sewage in campus facilities and saliva from staff, then from December, all staff working on the campus were screed every week by PCR test. The minimum human resources very well organized the testing. Otherwise, Japanese quarantine in the Narita Airport was unorganized because there was too much staff, and they were using the paper form in this digital era. That reminded me the social structural difference between the two countries.
Additionally, I will introduce our study, which was released during COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter activities. Probably due to under those negative atmosphere, that was unexpectedly spread over the multimedia worldwide as "Scientists say they have found the cleanest air on Earth"
In this presentation, I will report the research situation and activities under COVID-19 at Colorado State University (CSU), where I had worked as a Research Scientist by the end of 2020. After the pandemic surged, even all staff worked remotely at their homes, online workshops about COVID-19 was organized every week by faculty staff in the CSU. That impressed me (as a typical Japanese scientist) how quickly scientists organized the community and developed new sciences. In November 2020, CSU started operating the system to detect SARS-CoV-2 from sewage in campus facilities and saliva from staff, then from December, all staff working on the campus were screed every week by PCR test. The minimum human resources very well organized the testing. Otherwise, Japanese quarantine in the Narita Airport was unorganized because there was too much staff, and they were using the paper form in this digital era. That reminded me the social structural difference between the two countries.
Additionally, I will introduce our study, which was released during COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter activities. Probably due to under those negative atmosphere, that was unexpectedly spread over the multimedia worldwide as "Scientists say they have found the cleanest air on Earth"