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Novavax COVID-19 vaccine trial opens at UT Health San Antonio, University Health

January 7, 2021

Media contacts: Will Sansom, UT Health San Antonio, (210) 567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu Shelley Kofler, University Health, (512) 294-5224, Shelley.Kofler@uhs-sa.com SAN ANTONIO – San Antonians will have the opportunity to participate in the fifth international COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial beginning in January through UT Health San Antonio and its clinical partner, University Health System, now referred to […]

Frequently asked questions: Novavax investigational COVID-19 vaccine trial

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 […]

KENS 5: How COVID-19 affects the brain

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 […]

Fox 29: Area health experts talk improvements to local vaccine rollout

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.

Fox 29: Frontline healthcare workers begin receiving final dose of COVID vaccine

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 […]

News 4: Health care thank you

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.