Tag: COVID19

Vaccine experts had decades of knowledge from HIV research to help develop a COVID vaccine. Now, they are turning back to HIV research with new knowledge gained from the COVID pandemic. Volunteers ...

Results are in! URMC-led study shows that current COVID boosters elicited weak immune responses to new COVID variants, suggesting a need for continued monitoring for new variants and possibly ...

Counterintuitive results from a new URMC study suggest that prior infection and immunity to one of the seasonal cold coronaviruses may have put people at risk of more severe COVID illness and death.

Ann Falsey, M.D., addresses the question of what life may look like once COVID takes its place among other circulating respiratory diseases that, while dangerous for some, do not produce spikes in ...

Two Air Force Military Medical Teams have been deployed to support clinical operations at UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital. The militarily personnel will begin service in medical-surgical, ...

First, there was alpha, then delta, then omicron. Now, the World Health Organization has flagged a new COVID subvariant, the so-called “son of omicron.” A URMC expert tells you what you need to know.

Results of a global research project indicate that trust in science is the most powerful determinant of whether a person will decide to get a COVID vaccine.

The Omicron variant, which emerged in Botswana and South Africa in November of 2021, made its first appearance in Monroe County on December 22 – around the same time it became the dominant variant ...

UR Medicine Strong Memorial Hospital this week opened a new, temporary unit for Alternative Level of Care (ALC) patients. These patients no longer need acute, hospital-level care but cannot ...

As dentists and other healthcare providers continue to navigate the COVID pandemic and the emerging variants, an easy-to-use tool is now available to help them conveniently and accurately assess the ...