All Posts: COVID-19
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UNICEF Award to CGHPI Supports COVID-19 Vaccination in Eswatini
(January 6, 2023) — Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Practice and Impact-Eswatini (CGHPI-E) continues its COVID-19 vaccination work with the support of a new UNICEF award. Its new project addresses vaccine hesitancy through targeted and differentiated programming and communication campaigns at the community level in the Manzini and Lubombo regions of Eswatini. In March 2021, […]
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Kumar Honored for Response, Mentorship During the Pandemic
(April 29, 2022) — The Medical Society of DC (MSDC) has honored Princy N. Kumar, MD, professor of medicine and microbiology, and senior associate dean of students at Georgetown University School of Medicine, with its Dr. Charles H. Epps, III Community Service Award for outstanding public service to the community. “During the pandemic, [Dr. Kumar] […]
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Higher COVID-19 Death Rates in the Southern U.S. Due to Behavior Differences
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Georgetown Created Its Own COVID-19 Testing Lab – With Rapid Results
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How to End a Pandemic? Georgetown Course Encourages Students to See Themselves in the Answer
(January 13, 2022) — When designing her innovative new course, How to End a Pandemic, Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH, sought to push back against a common misconception regarding pandemic response. “There’s this narrative that there are a handful of heroes or heroines in the story of this pandemic — I want to challenge that,” said […]
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Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Guide the Search for the Next SARS-like Virus
WASHINGTON (January 10, 2022) — An international research team led by scientists at Georgetown University has demonstrated the power of artificial intelligence to predict which viruses could infect humans — like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that led to the COVID-19 pandemic — which animals host them, and where they could emerge. Their ensemble of predictive models […]
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Statement from Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH, on FDA Approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine
WASHINGTON (August 23, 2021) — Today, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved the two-dose COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Georgetown University Medical Center and former FDA Chief Scientist, shares the following comments: “In addition to evaluating the vaccine’s safety and efficacy in preventing COVID, FDA has […]
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Second-Year Medical Students Gather on Campus in Person for the First Time
(August 13, 2021) — After the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to start their medical education in a virtual setting, the students of the School of Medicine Class of 2024 were excited to start their second-year orientation, the first time they were all together as a class. Having started at Georgetown a week earlier, Lee Jones, […]
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Georgetown’s Jesse Goodman Leads Vaccine Analysis Team
(May 7, 2021) — If you’ve read news stories this past year about COVID-19 vaccines in The Washington Post or The New York Times, for example, or have heard stories on NPR, the journalists’ reporting may well have been informed by input from a group of vaccine experts led by Georgetown infectious disease specialist Jesse […]
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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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