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May 8, 2020
San Antonio Express-News hosts a community conversation with Dr. Barbara S. Taylor and Assistant City Manager Colleen Bridger, on Tuesday, May 12 at 11 a.m. Taylor, an associate professor of infectious diseases and the assistant dean for the MD/MPH program at UT Health San Antonio, is leading the city’s COVID-19 Health Transition Team. Read more.
May 8, 2020
Dr. Fred Campbell, General and Hospital Medicine, answers listeners’ questions about their health during the coronavirus pandemic. Listen to the Q&A.
May 7, 2020
UT Health San Antonio has clinics and labs across the city with its health care workers and researchers on the front line. They say they do not have a shortage and “are closely monitoring our PPE and are providing universal masking to our employees.” While the supply chain seems sufficient locally, all of these hospitals […]
May 7, 2020
Dr. Ruth Berggren, infectious diseases specialist and director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, answers coronavirus questions submitted by viewers. Dr. Berggren discusses restaurants, hair salons and gyms reopening, antibody testing, improvement of testing with increased capacity and more. Watch the interview.
May 7, 2020
Dr. Thomas Patterson, chief of the Division of Infectious Disease, was a guest on KTSA’s Jack Riccardi Show. Dr. Patterson discussed the new anti-viral drug, remdesivir, for the sickest COVID-19 patients. Dr. Patterson is leading a local study site in the clinical trial testing the drug, which just received emergency authorization from the FDA. He […]
May 7, 2020
Dr. Fred Campbell, an internal medicine doctor in the Department of General and Hospital Medicine, answered questions about COVID-19 on KTSA’s Jack Riccardi Show. Topics included low oxygen saturation, lung condition of COVID-19 survivors and antibody treatments. Listen below: