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March 20, 2020 • Community, COVID-19, Public Health
By Diane Smith Students, faculty and staff from The University North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth are helping answer questions about COVID-19 on Tarrant County Public Health’s 24-hour information line. The collaboration, which launched on March 19, will allow triple the call capacity of the information line during the COVID-19 pandemic. Noah Drew,…
March 19, 2020 • COVID-19
By Diane Smith The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and the City of Fort Worth have joined communication resources in an effort to keep the public educated about COVID-19 and the safety measures activated to combat it. The coronavirus pandemic’s impact on communities is evolving. The City of Fort Worth…
March 19, 2020 • COVID-19, Patient Care, Public Health
By David Farmer, PhD, LPC, LMFT, Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice at HSC There are many people working from home while others are in self-quarantine – can both groups face isolation issues? Whether working from home or participating in self quarantine, geographic distance is created, separating us from our familiar work environment and supportive…
March 19, 2020 • COVID-19, Students
By Diane Smith Food insecurity is an ongoing concern for many students and one that’s being addressed by the The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds. “Our students are here to do hard things, and hard things become increasingly more difficult when basic needs aren’t being…
March 19, 2020 • COVID-19, Patient Care, Public Health
By Sally Crocker So you’ve heeded the warnings about the COVID-19 pandemic that has much of the world in lockdown right now. You have the food and essentials you need. You are set to work remotely, if that’s an option. You’re avoiding large gatherings and listening to officials who advise that social distancing is best…
March 17, 2020 • COVID-19, Leadership, Public Health
By President Michael Williams and David Mansdoerfer The science shows that for a vast majority of folks, the symptoms for COVID-19 will be mild and not require any type of medical intervention. Additionally, given that a virus, by nature, cannot be seen, if you have yet to be personally affected by this, the national response…
March 17, 2020 • COVID-19, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Public Health, School of Biomedical Sciences
*Note: The technical terms for the novel coronavirus that is causing COVID-19 pneumonia are HCoV-19 or SARS-CoV-2. The virus has been referred to as coronavirus or COVID-19 in media reports. As cases of HCoV-19 infection and resultant COVID-19 pneumonia rise in the United States, so do questions about the process and timeline to develop effective…
March 13, 2020 • COVID-19, Institute for Healthy Aging, Our People, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Research, School of Biomedical Sciences
By Diane Smith When news of the coronavirus emerged from Wuhan, China, Kunlin Jin, PhD, and a team of international researchers quickly joined forces to fight the mysterious disease. Dr. Jin relied on his more than 20 years of knowledge about stem cells to work with an international team driven to save lives. He used…
February 12, 2020 • COVID-19, Patient Care, Public Health
What is a Coronavirus? Named after the crown-like projections on their surfaces, coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common among different animal species such as bats, cattle, camels, and cats. While it’s rare that animal coronaviruses infect people and spread, the first human coronavirus was first identified in the 1960s. Most coronaviruses…
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