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Released: 17-Mar-2020 8:40 AM EDT
TODAY Live Webcast: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Experts on Coronavirus at 11:30 A.M.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Panelists will discuss the very latest insights about the coronavirus, including the importance of social distancing and testing options.

Released: 17-Mar-2020 8:10 AM EDT
Media Advisory: C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital experts available to offer parents advice related to COVID-19
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Experts from Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital available for interviews to help with COVID-19 content related to parents and children.

   
Released: 17-Mar-2020 8:00 AM EDT
COVID-19 Tip Sheet: Story Ideas From Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins Medicine

The following are various story ideas regarding the COVID-19 illness. To interview Johns Hopkins experts on these topics or others, contact [email protected].

Released: 16-Mar-2020 7:15 PM EDT
AANA Updates COVID-19 Resources for Anesthesia Professions
American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology

As the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic unfolds, healthcare professionals such as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are facing an unprecedented, ever-evolving crisis.

Released: 16-Mar-2020 6:45 PM EDT
Higher education units partner on free online course to support faculty during pandemic
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

A free online course to help faculty members and instructional staff who must teach remotely during the coronavirus pandemic has been launched by three units in higher education that specialize in digital learning.

Released: 16-Mar-2020 5:55 PM EDT
Researchers developing coronavirus detection system to screen travelers
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Researchers at Missouri S&T are developing an airborne-biohazard system that could help screeners spot air travelers with lung diseases due to coronavirus and other viruses. Professors in electrical and computer engineering are using machine learning to build a robust system to alert authorities to airborne biohazards as travelers pass through TSA security checkpoints.

Released: 16-Mar-2020 3:35 PM EDT
COVID-19: Do not forget the host in treating this disease
University of Alabama at Birmingham

From reading the literature primarily out of China, many of the severely ill coronavirus-infected patients appear to have clinical and laboratory features of a cytokine storm syndrome, or CSS, which is frequently fatal.

Released: 16-Mar-2020 3:30 PM EDT
Aversion to Risk by R&D Managers May Hurt U.S. Economic Prospects
University of California San Diego

While concerns loom over an impending recession caused by the spread of COVID-19, policymakers and business leaders have implemented radical strategies, such as slashing interest rates to invigorate the U.S.’s weakened economy. Research and Development (R&D) has long been key in the nation’s economic prospects and according to new research from the University of California San Diego, the country’s ability to maintain its competitive edge in this area largely depends on managers in R&D being less averse to risk.

Released: 16-Mar-2020 2:50 PM EDT
Family Quality Time During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Baylor University

With many schools closed as a measure against the spread of coronavirus, and many parents working remotely, families can incorporate a variety of activities — including educational ones — to keep kids engaged and ready to continue learning when they return to school, say family experts at Baylor University.

Released: 16-Mar-2020 1:25 PM EDT
Penn Nursing Podcast Special Edition: COVID-19
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

As the COVID-19 pandemic grows across the US, Penn Nursing’s Alison Buttenheim, PhD, a public health researcher and behavioral epidemiologist and Penn Medicine’s Carolyn Cannuscio, ScD, a social epidemiologist, join Amplify Nursing to discuss the coronavirus – what we need to know, what we need to do to help lessen the spread, and what we should expect in the days and weeks to come. Listen here or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Released: 16-Mar-2020 11:55 AM EDT
Telehealth can help ‘flatten the curve,’ serve critical role in COVID-19 response, says WVU health expert
West Virginia University

West Virginia University is connecting patients, recently discharged from long-term care facilities, with medical professionals who can manage their healthcare remotely via technology. This telehealth approach may now prove to be a more versatile tool as the U.S. responds to the looming threat of the novel coronavirus.

Released: 16-Mar-2020 10:05 AM EDT
“Families First Coronavirus Response Act” risks limited testing, surprise patient billing
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201) represents swift action by the House of Representatives to bolster federal responses to the spread of coronavirus and aims to reduce the pandemic’s impacts on Americans’ safety and financial security, while addressing an ongoing COVID-19 testing backlog.

   
Released: 16-Mar-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Healthcare Communication Platform, Pulsara, Announces Release of FREE COVID-19 Management Package
Pulsara

Pulsara's COVID-19 package enables networked communication (including HIPAA-compliant live video and messaging) across organizations at no charge.

Released: 16-Mar-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Association for Molecular Pathology Calls on Senate to Close Coverage Gaps for Clinical Laboratory Testing in Families First Coronavirus Response Act
Association for Molecular Pathology

The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, molecular diagnostic professional society, today released a statement on H.R. 6201, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, as passed by the House of Representatives on March 14, 2020.

Released: 16-Mar-2020 8:30 AM EDT
Families First Coronavirus Response Act Would Prohibit Insurers from Paying for Some COVID-19 Tests
Association for Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM (formerly AACC))

AACC greatly values the work that the U.S. House of Representatives has done to support American families in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak and is supportive of the goals of H.R. 6201, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. However, we are concerned that the language as currently drafted does not provide coverage for COVID-19 tests performed prior to those tests receiving Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

Released: 16-Mar-2020 8:25 AM EDT
COVID-19 pandemic poses risk of recession
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Associate Professor Alessandro Rebucci offers his interpretation of what COVID-19 means for the markets in the near term and long term.

Released: 16-Mar-2020 8:25 AM EDT
Tips to Cope with the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nuvance Health

Answers to common questions and ways to help you manage stress during the COVID-19 pandemic

Released: 13-Mar-2020 5:45 PM EDT
Education Management Solutions Releases Covid-19 Coronavirus Medical Education Guidelines
Education Management Solutions (EMS)

Newly released guidelines on the best practices for utilizing telemedicine to support uninterrupted healthcare education and simulation training during academic closures due to Covid-19 Coronavirus

Released: 13-Mar-2020 5:30 PM EDT
Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss Sanitizing Smartphones to Avoid COVID-19
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers scholar Donald Schaffner is available to discuss how often, and with what chemicals, smartphone users should sanitize their devices amid fears of COVID-19.

Released: 13-Mar-2020 4:55 PM EDT
Radio Observatories Closing in New Mexico, Virginia, West Virginia
National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Radio observatories closing facilities in response to COVID-19 outbreak and school closings in three states.

Released: 13-Mar-2020 2:25 PM EDT
New COVID-19 content from Annals of Internal Medicine
American College of Physicians (ACP)

Below please find links to new coronavirus-related content published today in Annals of Internal Medicine. All coronavirus-related content published in Annals of Internal Medicine is free to the public.

Released: 13-Mar-2020 2:05 PM EDT
FSMB Statement on Supporting States in Verifying Licenses for Physicians Responding to COVID-19 Virus
Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB)

The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) released a statement offering the assistance of the FSMB to help provide essential information that can be used to verify licenses and credentials for physicians and other health care professionals wishing to practice across state lines to treat patients in areas heavily impacted by the COVID-19 virus

Released: 13-Mar-2020 1:20 PM EDT
The Lancet: Study details first known person-to-person transmission of new coronavirus in the USA
Lancet

Person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 occurred between two people with prolonged, unprotected exposure while the first patient was symptomatic. Despite active monitoring and testing of 372 contacts of both cases, no further transmission was detected.

Released: 13-Mar-2020 1:05 PM EDT
Faculty Q&A: U. of Michigan economist Gabriel Ehrlich sees sharp, short-lived effects of coronavirus
University of Michigan

FACULTY Q&AGabriel Ehrlich is the director of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics at the University of Michigan, where he forecasts the U.S. and Michigan economies. He discusses the economic impact of the coronavirus locally, nationally and globally.We are seeing a sinking Dow, disrupted education, restricted travel, canceled events and much more fallout.

   
Released: 13-Mar-2020 12:15 PM EDT
Cancer and COVID-19: What you should know
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

UCLA Oncologists Gary Schiller, MD, and Joshua Sasine, MD, PhD, help explain what cancer patients need to know about COVID-19.

Released: 13-Mar-2020 12:15 PM EDT
Faculty Q&A: H. Luke Shaefer on how the coronavirus outbreak highlights inequities in health care, employment systems
University of Michigan

FACULTY Q&ALuke ShaeferAs the coronavirus continues to spread, University of Michigan poverty scholar H. Luke Shaefer discusses how the pandemic will impact hourly workers and families with low incomes. Shaefer, faculty director of Poverty Solutions U-M, is a professor of social work and public policy.What are the implications of the coronavirus pandemic for low-income families?As there are more and more closures, those who don’t have paid time off and only get paid when they clock in are going to run into the most financial trouble.

   
Released: 13-Mar-2020 11:50 AM EDT
‘This Is What Rush Was Built For'
RUSH

Rush University Medical Center is officially operating in surge mode, as preparations for a potential sharp increase in patients with COVID-19 move into a new phase.



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