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Category: COVID-19
March 31, 2020 • COVID-19, Pediatrics
By Diane Smith Patrice Buffkin’s early worries about COVID-19 were work related. Buffkin, an event-planning manager for The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, wondered if the disease would delay promotional items en route from China in January. Buffkin was 29 to 32 weeks pregnant, expecting a baby girl. Her attention…
March 31, 2020 • College of Public Health, COVID-19
By Sally Crocker Dr. Dana Litt remembers a lot of special things about veteran stage and film actor Mark Blum, 69, a respected fixture on the New York acting scene for decades who recently died from complications of coronavirus. His loss is different for Dr. Litt, Associate Professor at the HSC School of Public Health,…
March 30, 2020 • COVID-19, TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Steven Bartolotta In just six-weeks, scores of students from the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine will be joining the ranks of medical professionals. Little did they know just a month ago they would be joining the profession at a time of worldwide crisis because of the outbreak of COVID-19. The pandemic has put an…
March 30, 2020 • COVID-19, Patient Care, Public Health, Safercare Texas
By Alex Branch and Diane Smith-Pinckney Elderly Americans are at a greater health risk from COVID-19 and likelier to struggle with the isolation of social distancing. How can the rest of us help them? “I grew up in a row house in Philadelphia where everyone knew each other and checked up on the people around…
March 27, 2020 • College of Public Health, COVID-19
By Alex Branch Tensions are rising in some communities as New York City residents flee the densely populated city for other areas amid the COVID-19 outbreak. We asked Dr. Ubydul Haque, Assistant Professor of Biostatics and Epidemiology in the HSC School of Public Health who has researched lessons learned from past coronavirus outbreaks, about the…
March 26, 2020 • COVID-19
By Sally Crocker As more kids find themselves homebound now that families across the country are practicing safe distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus, it may be important to increase, rather than limit, screen time for children and teens, say two researchers at HSC Fort Worth’s School of Public Health. Professors Dana M. Litt,…
March 26, 2020 • College of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, COVID-19, Students
By Diane Smith Exhausted and stressed are terms Dr. Yu Tao uses to describe how she felt in early 2020 as she monitored the path of COVID-19 as it emerged in her native China and moved across the globe. Dr. Tao, a licensed physician in China, is a PhD student at The University of North…
March 25, 2020 • Community, COVID-19, Patient Safety, Research
By Diane Smith The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is giving the Fort Worth Fire Department 5,000 surgical masks and calling on health organizations across the region to make similar donations to first responders in need. “This donation continues to demonstrate the relationship between the Fort Worth Fire Department and…
March 24, 2020 • Community, COVID-19, Provost, Public Health
By Alex Branch The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC) has opened an off-campus COVID-19 testing site for Tarrant County area first responders who may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus but are not experiencing symptoms. Available exclusively to first responders, the testing site is intended to keep first…
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,…
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