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UCSF Partners With Community Groups to Bring COVID-19 Testing to Oakland

September 24, 2020
In a continuing effort to serve communities that are at high risk of getting COVID-19, UCSF is partnering with Oakland-based community groups to sponsor two days of free mass testing.

Can You Tell If It’s the Flu or COVID-19? Doctors Say It’s Not So Clear

September 24, 2020
With influenza, COVID-19, and the usual cold-weather respiratory infections in circulation this winter, experts say it’s bound to be a confusing season for people to sort out what to do when they fall ill.

Most Infants Are Well Even When Moms are Infected by COVID-19

September 22, 2020
Infants born to women with COVID-19 showed few adverse outcomes, according to the first report in the country of infant outcomes through eight weeks of age.

UCSF’s Covidseeker to Track the Coronavirus with Cell Phone Data

September 15, 2020
Movement timelines from cellphone data can help people who have just received a positive test result recall where they have been and who they came into contact with when they were most infectious.

UCSF’s Covidseeker to Track the Coronavirus with Cellphone Data

September 15, 2020
Movement timelines from cellphone data can help people who have just received a positive test result recall where they have been and who they came into contact with when they were most infectious.

Why COVID-19 Means You Need a Flu Shot This Year

September 09, 2020
Health experts are warning that the addition of another respiratory illness on top of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could overburden the health care system, strain testing capacity, and increase the risk of catching both diseases at once.

COVID-19 Testing at Transit Hub Finds Ongoing High Transmission in Latinx Essential Workers

September 02, 2020
New testing data from the 24th Street BART plaza shows continued unmet demand for access to testing.

Stem Cell Trial Tests Treatment for Often-Fatal COVID-19 Lung Damage

August 31, 2020
Researchers are studying whether cells drawn from deep inside our bones may hold hope for the sickest of COVID-19 patients who have severe lung injury called acute respiratory distress syndrome.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Joins UCSF Town Hall to Discuss COVID-19, The Role of Science in Turbulent Times

August 26, 2020
In a special virtual town hall, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined UC San Francisco Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, to discuss the role of science and science advocacy in shaping federal policy during a global pandemic, her leadership during these turbulent times, and lessons learned during her long...

COVID-19 Vaccines Are Moving Fast, But Will Americans Agree to Get Them?

August 26, 2020
Only one in three U.S. adults received the flu vaccine in 2018, a number that has critical implications for the impending flu season, which threatens to overwhelm medical resources and lead to tens of thousands of deaths at a time when Americans are still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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