Archive: COVID-19
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Medical Student Uses Instagram to Share Recipes, Build Community and Make a Difference
(March 27, 2021) — When grocery stores and restaurants closed due to the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, Georgetown medical student Karen Li (M’24) and her sister, Winnie, a pre-med student at Northeastern University, started Quaraneat, an Instagram account, to share easy recipes their friends could use to stretch their ingredients while practicing social distancing. […]
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NHS Professor Develops New Course on Social Determinants of COVID-19
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Vaccines Alone May Not Be Enough to End Pandemic
WASHINGTON (March 18, 2021) — Even as vaccines are becoming more readily available in the U.S., protecting against the asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic spread of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19 is key to ending the pandemic, say two Georgetown infectious disease experts. In their Perspective, “SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Without Symptoms,” published March 18 in the journal […]
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Georgetown Ethicist Collaborates with Physicians to Create Moral Framework for Elective Surgeries During COVID-19
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Answering the Call: Georgetown Coordinates COVID-19 High-Capacity Vaccination Site
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Global Health Graduate Course Features COVID-19-Focused Simulation Exercise
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Two Georgetown Centers Find Unexpected Synergy in Exploring Pandemic’s Impact in Latin America
(February 26, 2021) — Proving that scholarly sparks can fly in unexpected ways, a cross-campus collaboration between Georgetown University Medical Center and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is applying a holistic new lens to COVID-19. Drawing on each center’s unique expertise, undergraduate and graduate students from the Center for Global Health Science […]
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Georgetown Mission and Ministry Offers Ignatian Retreat for Alumni Caregivers
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Clinical Students Volunteer With COVID-19 Vaccinations
(February 19, 2021) — Since mid-January, more than 150 medical and nursing students at Georgetown have answered MedStar Health’s call for volunteers to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. Coordinated by Elizabeth Zolper (M’21), the students volunteer every day of the week at four MedStar Health locations around Washington, D.C. Throughout this pandemic, students have contributed to […]
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Georgetown Professor Comments on FDA Authorization of Vaccine to Prevent COVID-19
WASHINGTON (December 11, 2020) — This evening, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. Former FDA Chief Scientist and infectious disease physician Jesse Goodman, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, celebrates and provides a brief perspective on this historic moment: “The first emergency use authorization […]
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