COVID-19 Frontliners: the Child Life Specialist
Child life specialist Katie Craft helps young patients grapple with new fears.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: Helping People Die from 3,000 Miles Away
Palliative care expert Alex Smith, MD, guides the families of COVID patients through the hardest decisions of their lives.
COVID-19 Frontliners: Answering the Coronavirus Hotline
Call navigator Monique Posey fields questions about the pandemic. She shares her story – and some of her strategies for coping with stress.
COVID-19 Frontliners: A Race for Lifesaving Treatment
Pharmacist Katherine Yang, PharmD, raced to get a new, lifesaving drug approved for emergency treatment of COVID-19.
COVID-19 Frontliners: the Respiratory Therapist
A skilled ventilator operator, respiratory therapist Max Rausch helps keep the sickest patients breathing.
COVID-19 Frontliners: the Physician-Storyteller
Between shifts at San Francisco’s public hospital, physician and podcast host Emily Silverman, MD, collects audio diaries from health workers across the nation.
COVID-19 Frontliners: Confronting a Lethal Disease Unlike Any Before We’d Seen Before
What’s it like – as a clinician, researcher, student, or hospital staffer – to confront a lethal disease unlike any you’ve seen before? In this special series, professionals across UCSF share first-person accounts of COVID-19 that reveal grit, ingenuity, and resolve in the face of fear.
UCSF Alumni Confront COVID-19
We asked on social media for alumni to share their pandemic stories. Here’s a selection of submissions that came in from across the country.
Front-Line Physicians Stressed and Anxious at Work and Home
Amid the COVID-19 chaos in many hospitals, emergency medicine physicians in seven cities around the country experienced rising levels of anxiety and emotional exhaustion, regardless of the intensity of the local surge, according to a new analysis led by UCSF.
Mask-Wearing Reduces Face-Touching Among Health Care Providers
Among a group of 40 health care professionals observed by the study authors, those without masks touched their faces nearly four times as often as those who wore masks, indicating that masks not only are an effective barrier to disease transmission, but also may reduce face-touching, at least among health care professionals.
1 in 3 Young Adults May Face Severe COVID-19, UCSF Study Shows
The researchers determined "medical vulnerability" by referencing indicators identified by the CDC, including heart conditions, diabetes, current asthma, immune conditions (such as lupus, gout, rheumatoid arthritis), liver conditions, obesity and smoking within the previous 30 days. Additionally, the researchers added e-cigarettes to tobacco and cigar use.
Researchers, Physicians Caution Against Use of Solitary Confinement to Prevent COVID-19 Spread in Prisons
As the COVID-19 spreads through America’s overcrowded jails and prisons, researchers with Amend at UCSF are cautioning against using punitive solitary confinement to medically isolate infected people.
Building Blocks for COVID-19 Antiviral Drugs Identified in Rapid Study
Scientists have identified key chemical building blocks for an eventual antiviral drug against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
