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January 7, 2021
Our South Texas community will be contributing to an investigational vaccine clinical trial that may help end the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Barbara Taylor, the principal investigator for the local study site, answers questions about the importance of the program and how it will be conducted. Dr. Taylor is an associate professor of infectious diseases at […]
January 6, 2021
Dr. Gabriel de Erausquin and Dr. Sudha Seshadri, Neurology/Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, have done multiple media interviews, including one for KENS 5 TV, regarding an article published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association; the article cites decades of scientific evidence suggesting it is very likely that COVID-19 […]
January 6, 2021
Dr. Robert Leverence, chief medical officer for UT Health Physicians, provided an interview to Fox 29 commenting on the rollouts for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that hit right before the holidays. Read and watch the story.
January 6, 2021
Drs. Jan and Tom Patterson, Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Don Jenkins, Surgery, contributed to this Fox 29/News 4 story on health care workers and essential personnel at UT Health San Antonio receiving their second and final dose of the Pfizer vaccine; KENS 5 and Spectrum News also ran stories of Tuesday’s first administrations of the […]
January 6, 2021
The health care workers of UT Health San Antonio are afforded sincere thanks in a video tribute by David Chancellor of News 4 San Antonio, augmented by comments from Drs. Robert Leverence, Tom Patterson and Ralph Riviello, UT Health Physicians/Infectious Diseases/Emergency Medicine, respectively. Watch the video.
January 6, 2021
Dr. Ruth Berggren, Infectious Diseases, contributed to this story in the Houston Chronicle addressing questions about the COVID-19 vaccines. Read the story.