All Posts: immune response

• Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Collaborate on COVID-19 Antibody Study

  WASHINGTON (May 7, 2020) — Georgetown University Medical Center, in collaboration with MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, is conducting a study to test for antibodies in two groups of people with increased vulnerability to COVID-19: hospital workers and those with cancer. The FDA has approved (under an emergency use authorization) only a few tests produced commercially […]

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, biomedical research, cancer, COVID-19, immune response, infectious disease, SARS-CoV-2

• The Storm Surge: COVID-19’s Deadly Weapon

  (May 7, 2020) — One of the most chilling aspects about being infected with COVID-19 is that for some people, the trajectory of illness can be highly unpredictable and they can go downhill quickly. For reasons that are not well understood, the immune system can go into overdrive, leading to a deadly cascade of events […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical research, comorbidities, COVID-19, cytokine storm, immune response