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July 27, 2020
Jan Patterson, Infectious Diseases, discusses CDC updates on isolation guidelines for people diagnosed with COVID-19, with changes due to studies showing a large majority of patients were no longer infectious after 10 days. Read the story.
July 27, 2020
Dr. Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Arlyn Ambriz, one of our medical students, joined with a faculty member from the University of California San Francisco, wrote this op-ed about the rapidly spreading novel coronavirus in immigration facilities and the concerns surrounding possible family separations. They discuss the negative impacts on immigrant children such […]
July 27, 2020
Dr. Mandie Svatek, Pediatrics & Hospital Medicine, addresses back-to-school concerns for children. She is part of a coalition that is working on creating a plan to reopen schools safely. Whereas children under the age of 10 don’t seem transmit COVID-19 as easily as adults— perhaps because their cough isn’t as strong and they’re not as […]
July 24, 2020
The new COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium study shows that patients who were treated with the antiviral drug remdesivir fared the best.
July 24, 2020
Dr. Ruth Berggren, Infectious Diseases, discusses the City of San Antonio’s new school safety warning indicator to help parents decide whether to send their children back into the classroom. Read and watch the story.
July 24, 2020
Yogesh Gupta, Ph.D., Biochemistry/Structural Biology, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, earned coverage in Newsweek regarding a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. According to the study, COVID-19-causing coronavirus disguises itself so it can hide inside cells without being detected by the immune system in order to replicate. Read the story.