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COVID-19 Drug Development Could Benefit from Approach Used Against Flu

A new study from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has found that some antivirals are useful for more than helping sick people get better — they also can prevent thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of virus cases if used in the early stages of infection.

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For Each Day’s Delay in Social Distancing, a COVID-19 Outbreak Lasts Days Longer

Every day a city delayed social distancing increased an outbreak by 2.4 days.

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Three UT Austin Faculty Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Astrophysicist Katherine Freese, astronomer John Kormendy and evolutionary biologist Mark Kirkpatrick of The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

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