All Posts: COVID-19

• Everything Old is New Again: Repurposing Drugs Against COVID-19

  (April 30, 2020) — Time is of the essence. With thousands of new cases of COVID-19 being diagnosed worldwide along with hundreds of deaths each day as the first wave of the pandemic spreads in the U.S., finding drugs that prevent or counteract the virus that causes the disease has tremendous urgency for the research […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, biomedical research, coronavirus, COVID-19, drug repurposing

• Georgetown Lombardi Launches COVID-19 Antibody Study in People with Cancer

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, cancer, cancer research, COVID-19, Georgetown Lombardi, SARS-CoV-2

• NHS Student Creates Virtual Music Initiative for Senior Community Centers

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others

• COVID-19 and DC Black Communities: Challenges and Opportunities

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, health disparities, population health, public health

• Top Global Health Experts Release Action Plan: COVID-19: A Global Pandemic Demands a Global Response

  WASHINGTON (April 23, 2020) — Some of the world’s foremost experts in global health say a comprehensive global response can defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, but the time to act is now. In a comprehensive white paper (COVID-19: A Global Pandemic Demands a Global Response) available today on the Georgetown University website, Georgetown professor and the […]

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, big data, Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, COVID-19, global health, machine learning, pandemic

• Georgetown Global Health Experts Apply Past Lessons to COVID-19

  (April 21, 2020) — As COVID-19 cases continue to spread around the globe, there is still much to be understood: how long drastic “social distancing” measures will be necessary, whether there will be a resurgence months from now, and to what extent viral mutations might impact clinical outcomes, among many other critical questions. As the […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, Center for Global Health Science and Security, COVID-19, Ebola, global health, HIV, School of Medicine

• Preparing for a Second Wave of COVID-19 With Real-Time Surveillance

  (April 21, 2020) — To avoid depending on COVID-19 testing in the event of a second wave of illness in the U.S., two Georgetown University global health researchers are developing a real-time surveillance system. The computer-based system would detect health indicators of the community disease spread early on — before confirmed diagnoses. Public health officials, […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, Center for Global Health Science and Security, COVID-19, global health

• Pressure to Endorse Use of Unproven Drugs for COVID-19 Threatens Public Confidence

  WASHINGTON (April 16, 2020) — The widespread use of experimental treatments for COVID-19, including the antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, represents “ill-advised and uncontrolled human experimentation with unproven treatments,” say two former FDA chief scientists. Furthermore, political pressure or advocacy for specific experimental treatments, such as that surrounding the issuance of an Emergency Use Authorization […]

  Category: News Release Tags: chloroquine, clinical trials, COVID-19, experimental treatments, hydroxychloroquine

• NHS Alumnus Contributes to COVID-19 Response at Harborview Medical Center

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• NHS Alumna Amid Dallas Hospital COVID-19 Response: ‘I Have Never Loved Nursing More’

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, School of Nursing & Health Studies