All Posts: COVID-19
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Georgetown Lombardi Launches COVID-19 Antibody Study in People with Cancer
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NHS Student Creates Virtual Music Initiative for Senior Community Centers
Category: GUMC Stories
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COVID-19 and DC Black Communities: Challenges and Opportunities
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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NHS Alumnus Contributes to COVID-19 Response at Harborview Medical Center
Category: GUMC Stories
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NHS Alumna Amid Dallas Hospital COVID-19 Response: ‘I Have Never Loved Nursing More’
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Addressing an Urgent Need: COVID-19 Research at Georgetown
(April 15, 2020) — While the COVID-19 pandemic has presented the medical and scientific community with unrelenting and unparalleled challenges, the unique nature of the virus provides for wide-ranging and potentially impactful areas of scientific exploration and understanding. To that end, Georgetown University Medical Center provided seed money to 15 teams of investigators to better […]
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