Before COVID-19 was a widespread concern in the U.S., infectious disease scientists at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC rapidly mobilized to look for a… Read more
Category: COVID-19
How to use precision medicine to personalize COVID-19 treatment according to the patient’s genes
Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, were among the earliest celebrities to catch the novel coronavirus. In an interview at the beginning of July,… Read more
UPMC Data Reveal Important Lessons for Managing COVID-19
At a virtual press briefing today, UPMC leaders Drs. Donald Yealy, Oscar Marroquin and Derek Angus shared the health system’s most recent findings related to… Read more
UPMC Children’s Leads Consortium to Identify Neurological Side Effects of COVID-19 in Kids
A rare but concerning link has been discovered between COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a delayed immune system overreaction that can be… Read more
Four Steps to Continue Tele-Addiction Treatment Growth Post-COVID-19
To date, over 170,000 people in the United States have died from COVID-19. In addition to deaths from the virus, 150,000 more “deaths of despair,”… Read more