Reflecting on how Philadelphians reacted when the pandemic first hit may help us learn to be better prepared for changes in this pandemic, as well as other health crises down the road.
Author: Greg Richter
Greg is a news manager who covers Medicine, Public Health, Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems.
He graduated from Rowan University, where he also worked in its Office of Media and Public Relations and also had a brief stint as its mascot for the opening of its medical school. Since then, he has lived in Philadelphia for eight years and worked in Penn Medicine’s Office of Communications, most recently as a senior medical communications officer.
When not covering news at Drexel, he’s trying out a new recipe or trying to decide if he actually enjoys running.
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Q+A: How Can We Persuade Organ Donors to Vaccinate Against COVID-19?
More than 150 million Americans – 46% of the country – has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 36% of the country’s population is fully vaccinated. Despite very rare side effects, public health officials consider vaccines to be effective at preventing severe illness and be the ticket to something resembling pre-pandemic life.haryha
The Pandemic Will End, but We’re Probably Stuck with the Coronavirus
Many scientists believe that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, will become “endemic.” It will seasonally circulate in a similar fashion to the other common respiratory viruses, such as those that cause the common cold or flu. If this bears out, there will not be a true end to the pandemic (with accompanying ticker tape parade down Broad Street), but a gradual transition, to an illness that we will have to live with.
How should we support living organ donors during a worldwide pandemic?
Transplant programs and potential donors have faced hard questions about risk tolerance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These are some of the questions that researchers from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and Dornsife School of Public Health posed to prior and prospective organ donors across the United States.
What do COVID-19 Case Numbers Really Mean and What Numbers are Useful?
If you’re frequently trying to make sense of the number of local and national COVID-19 cases and deaths from the CDC’s tracker or other places, but are unsure what it all means, you’re not alone.
Is the United States Honoring its ‘Melting Pot’ Identity?
Three recent papers from researchers in Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, discuss continued inequalities and growing challenges faced by many immigrants in the U.S. They also offer opportunities for a creative refocus of present efforts to help close these gaps.
Drexel Medicine and Public Health Experts on the Pulse of COVID-19
As the world continues to grapple with the ongoing pandemic, Drexel University’s College of Medicine and Dornsife School of Public Health experts sorted out what the research community has learned thus far and what questions […]
Millions of Americans Suffer from Chronic Wounds Each Year. COSTLY Treatment for Patients Rides on a Wildly Inaccurate Ruler Reading.
Six and a half million Americans suffer with chronic wounds each year, with $25 billion spent annually to treat them. That number is expected to rise, as chronic wound risk increases with age. One in […]
From Bed to Bedside: How One of the Nation’s Few Remaining Physician Re-entry Programs Moved Online to Support Physician Shortage
Re-entering medicine isn’t easy, as such candidates face credentialing, regulatory guidelines, financial hurdles, and other obstacles. Perhaps the biggest obstacle is finding and acceptance into one of the few re-entry programs operating in the United States, such as Drexel College of Medicine’s Physician Refresher/Re-Entry program.
Drexel and Tower Health Researchers Study Immune Responses Among COVID-19 Patients in Nationwide NIH Study
Researchers at Drexel University’s College of Medicine and Tower Health are among 10 leading medical institutions nationwide embarking on a study funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to uncover insights that may help answer these questions and others about the immune responses to COVID-19.
