All Posts: COVID-19
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COVID-19 Symptom Tracker Ensures Privacy During Isolation
WASHINGTON (August 13, 2020) — An online COVID-19 symptom tracking tool developed by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center ensures a person’s confidentiality while being able to actively monitor their symptoms. The tool is not proprietary and can be used by entities that are not able to develop their own tracking systems. Identifying and monitoring […]
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Georgetown Applying Patented Technology to Develop Fast and Accurate COVID-19 Test
(August 6, 2020) — After studying the results of a myriad of diagnostic tests used around the world for the virus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, Georgetown University Medical Center biochemist Mark Danielsen, PhD, thinks he has a solution for making a better test — one that can deliver faster results and be accurate. It’s a […]
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Georgetown Physician Calls for Formal Inquiry Into U.S. Handling of COVID-19
WASHINGTON (August 5, 2020) — A complete understanding of how the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a public health disaster will require a full investigation akin to the 9/11 Commission, says a Georgetown University physician, writing in a BMJ Opinion published today. The author, Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP, is professor of family […]
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Using Zoom, NHS Undergraduates Teach Health Literacy in Alaska Literacy Program
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Clinical Research Staff Rise to the Challenges Posed by Pandemic
(July 31, 2020) — Running clinical research can be complicated under normal circumstances but it’s especially arduous during a pandemic. Despite the difficulties, the clinical research teams at Georgetown have worked tirelessly, remotely and on campus, to continue supporting researchers and study participants. “Our team as a whole really stepped up to do this, and […]
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Get to Know Georgetown’s COVID-19 Researchers
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SOM Alumna Channels Cura Personalis Lessons to Psychiatric Care During Pandemic
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NHS Professor Part of Global Collaboration Behind New COVID-19 Legal Database
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NHS Alumna, Now Texas Family Nurse Practitioner, Sees COVID-19’s Impact on Cardiac Care
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Medical Student Makes a Difference by Donating Convalescent Plasma
(July 17, 2020) — When Tanvee Singh (M’22) started feeling sick in March, she thought her asthma was acting up. As her symptoms worsened, she was diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Determined to find a silver lining in her experience, Singh donated plasma at the NIH Clinical Center when she […]
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