Seeking Immunity Against COVID-19
Joel Ernst, MD, addresses key questions about how vaccine development works and why vaccines are especially important in the case of COVID-19.
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Give to UCSFJoel Ernst, MD, addresses key questions about how vaccine development works and why vaccines are especially important in the case of COVID-19.
With campuses closed, Joseph Kidane serves with hundreds of his fellow medical students in a volunteer crisis workforce.
The pandemic has led to a sudden rise in discrimination against people of Asian descent.
Call navigator Monique Posey fields questions about the pandemic. She shares her story – and some of her strategies for coping with stress.
Hospitalist Sajan Patel, MD, remembers anxieties and revelations while caring for the Bay Area's first coronavirus patients.
Kelly Timothy cares for some of the Bay Area’s sickest patients – and their families.
Why are more men than women dying of COVID-19? Scientist Faranak Fattahi, PhD, has found a clue.
Pharmacist Katherine Yang, PharmD, raced to get a new, lifesaving drug approved for emergency treatment of COVID-19.
As the United States’ testing regime floundered early in the pandemic, scientists at UCSF and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub created from scratch a diagnostic lab that became a model for the nation.
Between shifts at San Francisco’s public hospital, physician and podcast host Emily Silverman, MD, collects audio diaries from health workers across the nation.
Palliative care expert Alex Smith, MD, guides the families of COVID patients through the hardest decisions of their lives.
How I learned to use social media to advance the public’s understanding of COVID-19.
A skilled ventilator operator, respiratory therapist Max Rausch helps keep the sickest patients breathing.
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.
A look at past outbreaks offers guidance on bringing the current one to an end – and on thwarting the next one.
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.
As Emergency Medicine Chief, Maria Raven, MD, takes charge of the hospital’s first line of defense.
Clinical trial leader Annie Luetkemeyer, MD, tests promising therapies for COVID-19 – and soon a vaccine.
When your child has a serious medical condition, social distancing is all too familiar. Five families have some advice for the rest of us.
UCSF researchers are taking a closer look at COVID-19’s dizzying array of symptoms to get at the disease’s root causes.
Custodian Abie Stillman shares his reflections on essential work and what he would like instead of another thank-you.
When future historians look back on this moment, they will draw many conclusions from our response to this crisis. Here are five big lessons that UCSF experts already see taking shape.
Communities of color have been hit hardest by COVID-19. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in an outcry against police brutality. Both issues have roots in the same problem.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scientists have identified key chemical building blocks for an eventual antiviral drug against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
A new model of the causes of breast cancer, created by a team led by researchers at UCSF, Genentech and Stanford University, is designed to capture the complex interrelationships between dozens of primary and secondary breast cancer causes and stimulate further research.