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More Than a Village
Day after day, it takes more than a village to keep our School of Medicine running smoothly. And in these uncommon times, our staff is keeping it all together, whether working on campus or remotely from home. We now have letters to explain why some of our wonderful essential staff are out of their…
COVID-19 - Another Week Done
And so, it continues. The delivery people run to the porch and set the bags down even if you are at the door, and then hurry away. Gives a whole new meaning to Door Dash! However, in the grocery store, the lines place people only a shopping cart – or about four feet – apart, and the checkout lady…
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Q&A with School of Medicine’s Mark Cameron: Lessons learned from SARS
Mark Cameron is no stranger to fast-moving, highly contagious respiratory viruses. Cameron, an associate professor in the university’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences in the School of Medicine, was a part of the rapid-response research team during the severe acute…
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Chief Resident Adeola Fakolade explains the public health efforts behind long-term care and assisted-living facilities
Cuyahoga County public health efforts aim to stave off COVID-19 in long-term care and nursing home facilities The Plain Dealer: Adeola Fakolade, chief resident in the general preventive medicine and public health residency training program at Case Western Reserve University, discussed her public…
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Q&A with Shanina Knighton, infection preventionist
This Q&A has been adapted from a social media thread from late February 2020 between Shanina Knighton, an instructor at KL2 Clinical Research School and the Frances Payne Bolton (FPB) School of Nursing’s Twitter and Instagram feeds. It has been updated to reflect Ohio’s recent Stay at Home…
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CWRU School of Medicine generates new remote course on epidemiology of pandemics in response to global outbreak
Idea initiated by fourth-year med student When Elisabeth Wynia, a fourth-year student at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, learned on March 13 that her final hospital rotation was canceled because of COVID-19 concerns, she hustled for an alternative. “Anticipating that other…
Fighting the Pandemic
The punishing siege of COVID-19 continues and will be worse before it gets better. We all have become reacquainted with the quirks of our homes. We have now determined just how robust our internet connection really is, and we have sworn that, as soon as the stores reopen, we will acquire a newer,…
School of Medicine student volunteers assist with public questions and concerns about COVID-19 pandemic
While the novel coronavirus is disrupting every aspect of normalcy, the pandemic is also creating opportunities—for learning and community service, as faculty and students at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered by stepping up to fill an urgent need at local community…