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Released: 27-Mar-2020 5:45 PM EDT
Argonne's researchers and facilities playing a key role in the fight against COVID-19
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne scientists are working around the clock to analyze the virus to find new treatments and cures, predict how it will propagate through the population, and make sure that our supply chains remain intact.

Released: 27-Mar-2020 5:25 PM EDT
Relaxing Environmental Rules Shows Poor Judgment in the Midst of COVID-19 Outbreak
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Following reports of the Environmental Protection Agency’s move to implement broad changes that would relax environmental rules, the American Thoracic Society expressed disappointment with the plan.

     
Released: 27-Mar-2020 5:05 PM EDT
DePaul University faculty, students use 3D printers to make face shields, face mask covers
DePaul University

Health care workers treating COVID-19 patients across the nation are facing a critical shortage of personal protection equipment, especially face shields and respiratory N95 face masks. DePaul University faculty and students are answering the call by using 3D printers to manufacture these much-needed supplies for hospitals in Illinois.

   
Released: 27-Mar-2020 4:40 PM EDT
Kelley School initiative sparks ideas from around world to address problems from coronavirus
Indiana University

Among the millions of Americans working from home, a group of Indiana University Kelley School of Business professors created a worldwide movement to seek solutions for problems arising from the novel coronavirus. Their "Idea Sprint Weekend Against COVID-19" initiative was organized in just three days and led to the development of several new social initiatives addressing issues related to the COVID-19 crisis, including a shortage of surgical masks, grocery stockouts, displaced workers and online educational challenges that students are facing across the country.

Released: 27-Mar-2020 3:35 PM EDT
Penn Nursing Podcast Special Edition UPDATE: COVID-19
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

COVID-19 is sweeping across the country with the number of cases rising dramatically. It’s been two weeks since Penn Nursing’s Alison Buttenheim, PhD, a public health researcher and behavioral epidemiologist and Penn Medicine’s Carolyn Cannuscio, ScD, a social epidemiologist, joined Amplify Nursing to discuss the coronavirus. Since a lot has occurred in that time, they are back with an update to discuss where we are at in this pandemic, how it has been handled locally and nationally so far, and what is still to come. Listen here or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Released: 27-Mar-2020 3:10 PM EDT
Engineers make progress in developing face shields, N95 masks to combat coronavirus
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Engineers at Binghamton University, State University are testing prototypes of ventilator adapters, masks, face shields and a UV sterilizing technique to help local healthcare partners during the coronavirus pandemic.

   
Released: 27-Mar-2020 2:25 PM EDT
Cornell Health ready to combat coronavirus
Cornell University

As of March 24, Cornell Health – which provides care for more than 80% of Cornell’s undergraduate, graduate and professional students each year – has moved to “pandemic operations,” based on the global public health landscape and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Released: 27-Mar-2020 2:20 PM EDT
Cornell Dairy helps replenish P&C Fresh milk stock
Cornell University

When Cornell suspended classes March 13 and announced the switch to remote work in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus, P&C Fresh customers scrambled to stock up on bread, butter, toilet paper and milk.

Released: 27-Mar-2020 2:10 PM EDT
ASA Urges Administration to Take Steps to Ensure Continued Patient Care, Provider Safety During COVID-19
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

As the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) continues to collaborate with the Administration, Congress and other officials on ways physician anesthesiologists can help treat patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, ASA President Mary Dale Peterson, M.D., MSHCA, FACHE, FASA, sent a communication to the White House commending the Administration for its work to date and formalizing key ASA recommendations to address top health concerns. In the communication, Dr. Peterson urges the Administration to continue to prioritize actions to expand access to personal protective equipment (PPE), to provide robust economic relief to physician anesthesiologists’ practices and to increase access to ventilators which include anesthesia gas machine ventilators, while considering expanding access to critical care providers.

Released: 27-Mar-2020 1:50 PM EDT
Even $2 trillion may not be enough: Scholars weigh in on stimulus package, unemployment benefits, small business & industry loans, & individual checks
Washington University in St. Louis

The $2 trillion plan to prop up a pandemic-reeling United States, amid the news that there were 3.3 million unemployment claims lodged in the previous week, is expected to pass the House on March 27.Is it a Band-Aid or sufficient to heal what ails America’s economy?“We do not have this (COVID-19 outbreak) under control, and until we do, even $2 trillion may not be a big enough bailout,” said Anne Marie Knott, the Robert and Barbara Frick Professor of Business at Washington University in St.

Released: 27-Mar-2020 1:25 PM EDT
WashU Expert: Older Americans are not expendable
Washington University in St. Louis

Many countries reacted slowly and inadequately to the spread of COVID-19. Some critics have said this is due to initial reports of the disease, which indicated that it mainly affected older populations. Some, including the Texas lieutenant governor on Fox News, have even suggested that older Americans should be willing to sacrifice their health or lives for the good of the economy and the good of others.

   
Released: 27-Mar-2020 1:15 PM EDT
COVID-19 infection prevention and control in long-term care facilities
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health

Columbia Mailman School of Public Health's Dr. John W. Rowe, Professor of Health Policy and Aging, is a member of a WHO Expert Panel on Care of the Elderly which just released the attached guidance for prevention and management of COVID-19 among elderly in long term care facilities.

Released: 27-Mar-2020 12:35 PM EDT
Cedars-Sinai Giving More Than $2M to Help Those Affected by COVID-19
Cedars-Sinai

With COVID-19 spreading across the Los Angeles region, Cedars-Sinai is contributing more than $2 million to programs that provide housing, food assistance and access to healthcare for those in need. The immediate funding infusion comes on top of the $15 million Cedars-Sinai committed last year to support safety-net organizations and the communities they serve.

26-Mar-2020 2:35 PM EDT
COVID-19 linked to cardiac injury, worse outcomes for patients with underlying heart conditions
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

COVID-19 can have fatal consequences for people with underlying cardiovascular disease and cause cardiac injury even in patients without underlying heart conditions, according to a review published today in JAMA Cardiology by experts at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

Released: 27-Mar-2020 10:50 AM EDT
Lessons from the Spanish Flu: Cities that Enacted Early Isolation, Other Restrictions Had Significantly Lower Rates of Disease and Mortality
Loyola Medicine

A review of published data and analysis on the Spanish flu, found that cities that adopted early and broad isolation and prevention measures had disease and mortality rates that were 30% to 50% lower than cities that adopted less stringent or later restrictions.

   
Released: 27-Mar-2020 10:05 AM EDT
West Virginia University launches online map of COVID-19 testing sites in West Virginia
West Virginia University

The Office of Health Services Research, in the West Virginia University School of Public Health, has launched an online map that shows all COVID-19 testing sites in the Mountain State from Newell to Bluefield and all points in between

Released: 27-Mar-2020 9:00 AM EDT
TRANSCRIPT AND VIDEO AVAILABLE: COVID-19 Update, the Relief Package, Coronavirus Origins, 2020 Election: Newswise Live Expert Panel for March 26, 2020
Newswise

COVID-19 Update, the Relief Package, Coronavirus Origins, 2020 Election: Newswise Live Expert Panel for March 26, 2020

       
Released: 27-Mar-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Citizen Scientists Are Helping Researchers Design New Drugs to Combat COVID-19
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

Using a free computer game called Foldit, researchers are enlisting the help of citizen scientists to design drugs that could stop the novel coronavirus from infecting human cells.

   
Released: 27-Mar-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Experts: Geroscience Approach May Lessen Severity of COVID-19, Bolster Older Patients’ Response to Diseases
American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)

As the nation and world respond to the growing COVID-19 pandemic, a panel of leading aging research experts, convened by the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), posed that targeting the biology of aging through promising therapeutics could bolster the medical response to COVID-19 and other viruses that are devastating older patients.

Released: 27-Mar-2020 8:25 AM EDT
UC Davis launches two clinical studies to treat COVID-19
UC Davis Health (Defunct)

UC Davis Health has two clinical trials underway for hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.

Released: 27-Mar-2020 8:20 AM EDT
Some COVID-19 Patients Still Have Coronavirus After Symptoms Disappear
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

In a new study, researchers found that half of the patients they treated for mild COVID-19 infection still had coronavirus for up to eight days after symptoms disappeared. The research letter was published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Released: 27-Mar-2020 8:15 AM EDT
Kids & Covid-19 Website Provides Resources for Pediatric Healthcare Providers and Families
University of Maryland School of Medicine

The Kids & COVID-19 Site includes important resources for practices, educational information for parents and other important resources for caregivers about issues impacting children.

Released: 26-Mar-2020 6:30 PM EDT
UW researcher identifies workers most harmed by economic disruption due to COVID-19
University of Washington

The nearly 20% of U.S. workers, or 28.2 million, in occupations where interacting with the public is important, but using a computer is not — such as in food service, retail, personal services and transportation operators — are especially vulnerable to job loss or hours reductions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Released: 26-Mar-2020 6:30 PM EDT
AANA and VA Partner to Care for Veterans During COVID-19 Pandemic
American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology

The AANA has partnered with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to meet the needs of our nation’s veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Released: 26-Mar-2020 6:25 PM EDT
Travel restrictions are most useful in the early and late phase of an epidemic
University of Oxford

Analysis of human mobility and epidemiological data by a global consortium of researchers, led by the University of Oxford and Northeastern University, shows that human mobility was predictive of the spread of the epidemic in China.

     
Released: 26-Mar-2020 5:05 PM EDT
American Thoracic Society Issues Joint Statement to Congress and Trump Administration
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Today, the American Thoracic Society and a unified group of critical care societies issued a joint statement urging the Trump administration and congress to strengthen social distancing requirements in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus, which has reached pandemic status. The statement, in its entirety, is below:

Released: 26-Mar-2020 3:55 PM EDT
Putting gloves into the right hands
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Researchers across the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University have moved quickly to donate personal protective equipment from their laboratories to healthcare workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

   
Released: 26-Mar-2020 3:30 PM EDT
University of Utah libraries produce much-needed supplies for COVID-19 crisis
University of Utah

Library employees at the University of Utah are working together to produce and distribute face shields desperately needed in the health care community while facing the COVID-19 pandemic. In an agreement with University of Utah Health, the shields are 3-D printed to meet personal protective equipment (PPE) standards. Approximately 300 face shields can be produced daily.

   
Released: 26-Mar-2020 3:10 PM EDT
FSU expert available to discuss moral decision-making and social distancing
Florida State University

By: Bill Wellock | Published: March 26, 2020 | 2:45 pm | SHARE: In the fight against this new coronavirus, some of the most effective tools are a couch and a television in your own home.Public health officials are asking people to avoid socializing with others to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. That means people often have to make tough decisions about how to respond.

Released: 26-Mar-2020 2:25 PM EDT
UNH Experts Available To Discuss Coronavirus Stimulus Package Impact
University of New Hampshire

As the coronavirus forces cities and states to close down for business and restricts people to stay safely at home, thousands of small businesses and even more employees are grappling with how to pay bills. Michelline Dufort, director of the Center for Family Enterprise and Daniel Innis, professor of marketing and hospitality management, both at the University of New Hampshire, are available to discuss how the largest emergency stimulus package in U.S. history will help struggling families and hard hit businesses, and if it will really help.

     
Released: 26-Mar-2020 1:05 PM EDT
Bartels Hall hosts surgical mask-sewing effort
Cornell University

On Cornell’s Ithaca campus this week, in the midst of a spring semester suddenly interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic that has emptied dorms, classrooms and community spaces, a basketball court in Bartels Hall stirred to life with a new, urgent mission and two dozen volunteers.

Released: 26-Mar-2020 1:05 PM EDT
Is the Coronavirus Outbreak of Unnatural Origins?
Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)

Did coronavirus mutate from a virus already prevalent in humans or animals or did it originate in a laboratory? As scientists grapple with understanding the source of this rapidly spreading virus, the Grunow-Finke assessment tool (GFT) may assist them with determining whether the coronavirus outbreak is of natural or unnatural origins.

   
Released: 26-Mar-2020 1:05 PM EDT
Consumer Stockpiling During COVID-19 Crisis Can Look Panicky, But It Has Its Rational Side
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School

Consumers are clearing store shelves. Some observers call it “panic buying.” But a Johns Hopkins University expert on consumer behavior, while acknowledging that panic is an element of the phenomenon, says stockpiling can be seen as a rational approach to shopping during a pandemic.

Released: 26-Mar-2020 1:00 PM EDT
FSU professor available to comment on the Black Death and its lessons for COVID-19
Florida State University

By: Bill Wellock | Published: March 26, 2020 | 10:58 am | SHARE: The Black Death looms large in the history of infectious disease.The pandemic — an outbreak of bubonic plague which was probably spread predominantly by rats and fleas — struck Italy in 1347. Recent evidence on mortality suggests that in just a few years, the disease killed around 60 percent of the population in Europe, the part of the world from which historians have the most information.

   
Released: 26-Mar-2020 12:50 PM EDT
Kids, playgrounds, toys and sports equipment — why it is not safe during a pandemic
University of Alabama at Birmingham

UAB expert Samisksha Raut, Ph.D., explains the importance of keeping kids away from playgrounds and from touching various toys and sports equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine.

Released: 26-Mar-2020 12:05 PM EDT
COVID-19 Anxieties: Six Tips To Avoid Stress Eating When Social Distancing
RUSH

Joyce A. Corsica, PhD, director of outpatient psychotherapy and director of bariatric psychology at Rush and Mackenzie Kelly, PhD, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at Rush, shared six tips to avoid emotional eating during social distancing.

Released: 26-Mar-2020 11:50 AM EDT
Professional and College Sports Not Likely to Come Back Soon
Rutgers School of Public Health

Professional and college sports leagues are unlikely to resume their COVID-19-interrupted seasons anytime soon, according to Mitchel Rosen, a preparedness expert at the Rutgers School of Public Health. While unfortunate for Americans who look to sports to maintain a sense of normalcy, the interruption of play protects the health of spectators and players.

   
Released: 26-Mar-2020 11:40 AM EDT
How Should Radiation Oncologists Manage Prostate Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

An international team issues recommendations for managing prostate cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Released: 26-Mar-2020 10:40 AM EDT
AACC Applauds the Senate for Updating Its Legislation to Ensure that All Patients Have Access to COVID-19 Testing
Association for Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM (formerly AACC))

AACC applauds the U.S. Senate for responding to the concerns of the clinical laboratory community and revising the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to ensure that it provides insurance coverage for all COVID-19 tests, regardless of whether or not they are performed under an FDA emergency use authorization (EUA).

   
Released: 26-Mar-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Learning from the Recovered
Harvard Medical School

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are adapting an antibody-detection tool to study the aftermath of infections by the novel coronavirus that is causing the current global pandemic.



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