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Give to UCSFWe talked to UC San Francisco pediatricians about what we know about COVID-19 in children, the safety precautions schools need to take, and their perspective on how to balance the risks and benefits of reopening schools.
Can people who are struggling with serious mental illness and poverty benefit from telehealth? The pandemic forces a UCSF team to find out.
In San Francisco’s Mission District, UCSF infectious disease specialists and community partners are launching what is believed to be a first-in-the-nation pilot program to provide low-barrier COVID-19 testing — free, simple, and convenient — at a central transit hub.
Surgical charge nurse Alicia Catanese, RN, volunteered to help the Navajo Nation cope with its COVID surge.
Kelly Timothy cares for some of the Bay Area’s sickest patients – and their families.
Hospitalist Sajan Patel, MD, remembers anxieties and revelations while caring for the Bay Area's first coronavirus patients.
Pharmacist Katherine Yang, PharmD, raced to get a new, lifesaving drug approved for emergency treatment of COVID-19.
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.
Custodian Abie Stillman shares his reflections on essential work and what he would like instead of another thank-you.
A look at past outbreaks offers guidance on bringing the current one to an end – and on thwarting the next one.
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.
As Emergency Medicine Chief, Maria Raven, MD, takes charge of the hospital’s first line of defense.
Child life specialist Katie Craft helps young patients grapple with new fears.
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 Fresno physician Kenny Bahn, MD, fights both COVID-19 and inequity in the San Joaquin Valley.
Joel Ernst, MD, addresses key questions about how vaccine development works and why vaccines are especially important in the case of COVID-19.
Homelessness expert Margot Kushel, MD, delves into what the COVID-19 crisis reveals about housing and health.
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.
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.
UCSF researchers are taking a closer look at COVID-19’s dizzying array of symptoms to get at the disease’s root causes.
Why are more men than women dying of COVID-19? Scientist Faranak Fattahi, PhD, has found a clue.
Clinical trial leader Annie Luetkemeyer, MD, tests promising therapies for COVID-19 – and soon a vaccine.
Exceptional care was crucial, but I’m painfully aware that privilege also pulled me through.
When your child has a serious medical condition, social distancing is all too familiar. Five families have some advice for the rest of us.
How I learned to use social media to advance the public’s understanding of COVID-19.