Category: Health Care
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May 19, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts
‘We Roar’ podcast: A COVID vaccine in 12-18 months? Don’t count on it, says Gordon Douglas ’55
In the latest episode of the “We Roar” podcast, Gordon Douglas ’55, the former president of Merck’s vaccine division and a doctor with decades of clinical and academic experience, describes what it will take to produce a coronavirus vaccine in less than two years — and why that timeline is already “miraculously fast.”
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May 18, 2020 Health Care, News, Research
New Princeton COVID-19 study: ‘Warmer or more humid climates will not slow the virus’
Local variations in climate are not likely to dominate the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Princeton University study published May 18 in the journal, Science. “We project that warmer or more humid climates will not slow the virus at the early stage of the pandemic,” said first author Rachel Baker, a postdoctoral research associate in the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI).
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May 18, 2020 Health Care, News, Research
National Science Foundation awards grant to Princeton engineers to investigate asymptomatic spread of COVID-19
A National Science Foundation grant will support Princeton researchers studying how COVID-19 may be spread by people without symptoms through everyday social interactions involving breathing and speaking.
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May 17, 2020 Health Care
Architects partner with hospital to rethink facilities in the midst of COVID-19
Jeff Mansfield ’08, Amie Shao ’06 *10, Regina (Yang) Chen ‘08 and others at MASS Design Group, a nonprofit architecture firm based in Boston and Kigali, Rwanda, partnered with the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City to research protocols so that hospitals can responsibly redesign existing spaces to provide the best care, while protecting their health care workers and mitigating the spread of infection as much as possible.
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May 14, 2020 Health Care, Service
Covid Supply Team streamlines the delivery of in-demand PPE
Quarantined in Hong Kong for two weeks, Brian Sheng ’18 leveraged his experience with China-U.S. relations and devised a plan to help bring PPE from China to American health care facilities, partnering with Rel Lavizzo Mourey ’02, and Eric Sheng, Brian’s brother and a Penn alumnus. “I think it is times like these, in times of crisis, that the strength of the Princeton network really shows,” Sheng said.
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May 13, 2020 Health Care
Doctors in Training: In Limbo, Alumni Med Students Find Ways To Serve
Increasing numbers of doctors in training, Princeton alumni among them, are finding ways to help fight the global pandemic without violating social-distancing protocols. Their efforts include participating in online research designed to improve COVID-19 treatments, coordinating volunteer efforts on social media, and educating the online public about everything from the biology of viruses to the importance of handwashing.
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May 13, 2020 Health Care, News, Service
Todd Green ’90 Delivers N95 Masks On the Fly
When California attorney Todd Green ’90 volunteered to help transport personal protective equipment (PPE) to the Navajo Nation, little did he know that the effort would take him halfway across the country. But when the email request came, Green and his son, Asher, prepped to leave for Chicago the next day in their “small but mighty” Mooney Ovation two-seater for what became a meaningful trip.
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May 12, 2020 Community, Health Care, Service
Carla Dias ’21 answers call of service: “There is no better time to reengage with our communities”
Carla Dias ‘21 takes “In the Service of Humanity” to heart. During the fall semester, she spent her Thursdays volunteering at a hospice facility, feeling the acute difference between that environment and the typical undergraduate experience. When she found herself back home in March thanks to the pandemic, she took a similar tack, looking for ways to help in her community.
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May 12, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts, Research
Warning the Public: Coronaviruses are Deadlier in Larger Amounts
Catching COVID-19 isn’t all-or-nothing, says immunologist Caroline Bartman: like poison, a high dose of virus can kill while a low ‘viral load’ may cause mild infections.
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May 12, 2020 Health Care, News
Liza Hartofilis ’04 Answers the Call
Liza Hartofilis ’04, chief emergency medicine resident at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, goes to work every day worried for herself as much as her patients, given the shortage in personal protective equipment, also known as PPE. In fact, she sent her husband and their children out of Manhattan to keep from infecting them should she contract COVID-19 herself. Her story was recently featured on HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.”
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May 12, 2020 Community, Health Care, Service
Bill Ford ’79 Retools Motor Company to Make Medical Supplies
While COVID-19 has shut down much of Ford Motor Company’s global operations, there’s one thing they’re still making: medical supplies for health care workers.
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May 11, 2020 Community, Health Care
Josh Litwin ’87 and Friends Create 21st-Century Counterpart to Rosie the Riveter
When the coronavirus pandemic hit the San Francisco Bay area, three members of the Class of 1987 welded their skills to support those serving on the frontlines. Josh Litwin ’87, Deborah Weil Taylor ’87, and Peter Heinecke ’87 forged Homefront Rosie, an effort to supply healthcare workers with low-cost, reusable, plastic face shields.