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March 21, 2023: The team held a Gen3 Community webinar on how to set up Gen3 Data Commons using Helm Chart on various cloud and on-prem platforms. Open Commons Consortium presented Gen3 on GCP using Helm Charts and enable organizations natively on GCP to use Gen3 within their own secure boundary and also how to build a Gen3 project in GCP.

Jan 25, 2023: Under an AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative award granted to PRC, the team has completed the initial implementation of Quicksight dashboards into the pandemic response commons.

Dec 14, 2022: PRC Long COVID Working Group has started submitting data for research and analysis for long covid to PRC team.

Nov 2, 2022: PRC team conducted a training and live demonstration of Gen3 Regional Data Commons (https://chicagoland.pandemicresponsecommons.org) and detailed explanation of Observed COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate Rate Among the U.S. Population (CFR).

June 1, 2022: PRC team implements Gen3 Workspaces on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

March 2, 2022: PRC team publishes Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Observed COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate Among the U.S. Population .

Jan 28, 2022: AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative awards PRC secondary grant to continue development of  The Biomedical Research Hub: a federated platform for patient research data

Nov 22, 2021: PRC team publishes  The Biomedical Research Hub: a federated platform for patient research data .

Nov 15, 2021: PRC team showcases The Chicagoland COVID-19 Commons at SuperCompute 2021.

August 4, 2020: The Chicagoland COVID Commons is publicly launched.

July 29, 2020: AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative awards PRC with a grant to develop  The Biomedical Research Hub: a federated platform for patient research data

July 29, 2020: Robert Grossman, PRC Founding Member, participates in the NIH Data Science workshop on how to best enable real time access to COVID-19 data.

July 28, 2020: Matthew Trunnell, PRC Executive Director, participates in the Responsible Data Summit event “Data Commons in Pandemic”. Playback can be viewed here.

July 1, 2020: We have launched a web app, COVIDstoplight, to enable area residents to easily share anonymous reports of any symptoms they may be experiencing.

June 29, 2020: The Chicagoland COVID Commons now features county-level predictive models of infections and deaths.

June 1, 2020: The Chicagoland COVID Commons is open!

May 1, 2020: The Chicagoland COVID Commons has launched in beta.

Please continue to check back for more exciting news as we continue to grow!