Insights & Advice

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How Can We Be Sure the New COVID-19 Vaccines Are Safe?

Five experts share what will convince them that a vaccine is safe.
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Will Kids Be Safe When They Return to School? Will Everyone Else?

The science suggests yes, but only with proper planning and protocols.
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What Is COVID Doing to Our Hearts?

The disease can affect the heart’s rhythm, impair its ability to pump blood, and much more.
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COVID-19 Predictions for 2021 and Beyond

Will we face a fourth surge? More mutations? A return to the office?

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Combating Coronavirus

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Features

We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus

We were wrong.
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Features

An Epidemic of Inequality

Confronting the root of why people of color have been hit hardest by the coronavirus.
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Frontliners

They Called Us Heroes

We were just doing our jobs.
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Features

How to Build a COVID Testing Lab in Eight Days

As the nation’s testing regime floundered, one research team sprang into action.
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A Goldilocks Dose of Coronavirus

Do masks provide a just-right dose of COVID-19?
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First Person

How I Survived

Writer F.T. Kola recounts her battle with COVID-19 and its aftermath.

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Winter 2021

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Summer 2020

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UCSF: The Campaign Alumni Award Winners

We honor some of UCSF’s most accomplished alumni, like Monica McLemore, PhD ’10, who is demanding quality reproductive health care for all.

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