December 29, 2020 | Health News
COVID-19: Facts and Resources
Enrollment for UW students, faculty and staff is open for the Husky Coronavirus Testing.
See UW Medicine's COVID-19 Vaccines guide.
July 21, 2020 | Health News
This Pandemic is Not Over, and We Need to Stop Acting Like It Is (UW Daily, quotes Judy Wasserheit)
The United States has seen a total of 3,630,587 coronavirus cases and 138,782 deaths as of July 18, according to the CDC. That’s an increase of 74,710 cases and 918 new deaths compared to the previous day.
Coronavirus cases and deaths are rising.
July 13, 2020 | Health News
How to Reopen Schools: What Science and Other Countries Teach Us (quotes Brandon Guthrie/COVID Lit. Rep.)
View the summary of school re-openings
So far, countries that reopened schools after reducing infection levels — and imposed requirements like physical distancing and limits on class sizes — have not seen a surge in coronavirus cases.
July 07, 2020 | Health News
Coronavirus: Why We Need the World Health Organization (Podcast interview with Judy Wasserheit)
Dr. Judith Wasserheit, Chair of the Department of Global Health, and Dr. Charles Holmes, Georgetown University join the Infectious Diseases Society of America's (IDSA) COVID-19 podcast to discuss the critical role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in COVID-19 response efforts, and how its defunding could impact our ability to prevent, detect, and respond to future pandemics.
June 22, 2020 | Health News
People Probably Caught Coronavirus from Minks. A Wake-up Call to Study Infections in Animals (Washington Post, Quotes Peter Rabinowitz)
The minks on Dutch fur farms first got sick in mid-April, showing symptoms ranging from runny noses to severe respiratory distress.
June 17, 2020 | Health News
The Coronavirus Risks of Everyday Activities as Economies Reopen (Reuters, Quotes Jared Baeten)
Americans have started returning to more normal lifestyles with the end of coronavirus lockdowns. But what activities are safe?
Reuters asked five epidemiologists and public health experts to rate eleven everyday activities on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being a low-risk activity and 5 being a high risk activity. The scientists agreed that precautions can be taken to make all of these activities safer.
June 16, 2020 | Department News
MPH Student Supports UW Custodial Workers with Bread, Coffee, and Masks
While most of the University of Washington has shut down to comply with the state’s coronavirus response, many custodial workers are still reporting to work on campus. Evalynn Romano, a Master of Public Health (MPH) student in the Department of Global Health, was seeing stories of people providing supplies and other gifts to healthcare workers, but wondered why custodial workers were not being shown the same appreciation.
June 15, 2020 | Health News
Is There Really Such a Thing as a 'Super Spreader'? (CNN - Quotes Jared Baeten)
It has been apparent since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic that certain people are responsible for spreading more than their share of infections.
May 28, 2020 | Department News
Daily Newsletter Provides COVID-19 Literature Situation Report
The UW Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness has released a new daily newsletter that provides a succinct summary of the latest scientific literature related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Each day, there is a firehose of new scientific information emerging about COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2. This initiative is an attempt to focus that hose to highlight new findings that are most relevant to the public health response.