Episode 44: COVID-19 Exposure Assessment Tool

Technology Today

Southwest Research Institute

Technology

4.8 • 19 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A new tool can tell you if that meeting, event or family gathering will put you at risk for contracting COVID-19. The interactive tool, available now as a PDF, analyzes data such as size of the meeting space, ventilation, mask use, community spread, vaccination rates and more. Once the variables are filled in, users receive a low to very high risk assessment for a particular gathering. Our first guests from SwRI’s wholly owned subsidiary Signature Science LLC in Austin tell us how scientists are making the tool more user friendly and how it’s already working in real world scenarios. Listen now as Signature Science President and CEO Brian Schimmoller and Data Scientist Dr. Molly Isbell discuss the COVID-19 Exposure Assessment Tool (CEAT).

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0:00.0	A new data-driven tool developed by scientists determines the risk of COVID exposure at events,
0:06.9	meetings in your workplace anywhere. We'll tell you how this tool analyzes different scenarios
0:12.5	to manage risk. Next on this episode of Technology Today.
0:20.1	We live with technology, science, engineering, and the results of innovative research every day.
0:26.6	Now let's understand it better.
0:28.5	You're listening to the Technology Today podcast presented by Southwest Research Institute.
0:34.2	Transcripts and photos for this episode and all episodes are available at
0:38.9	podcast.swri.org.
0:42.3	Hello and welcome to technology today. I'm Lisa Benia. More than two years into the pandemic,
0:48.3	scientists are working from all angles to keep the public safe. Scientists from SWRI's wholly owned subsidiary Signature
0:56.0	Science LLC in Austin have developed the COVID-19 exposure assessment tools, C-E-A-T, or
1:03.9	Seat. Signature Science President and CEO Brian Shimoller, who led the development of
1:09.3	Seat and Director Dr. Molly Isbel, are here to tell us
1:12.9	about this useful and innovative risk management tool, our first guests from Signature Science
1:18.4	on the podcast.
1:19.7	Thanks for joining us, Brian and Molly.
1:21.5	Thank you.
1:22.2	It's good to be here.
1:23.2	All right.
1:23.8	So to start, will you give us a quick introduction to signature science? Tell us about it.
1:29.4	I can start. And, Brian, if you want to chime in. Signature science is a multidisciplinary,
1:34.0	scientific consulting and services company. Most of the work we do has something to do with signatures.
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