Tag: pandemic September 16, 2024 WashU Medicine leads 2 major pandemic preparedness research projectsTwo grants totaling $30 million a year for 3 years support efforts to design vaccines, drugs for understudied virus families.News Release January 26, 2022 Podcast: Why the omicron wave is differentThis episode of 'Show Me the Science' looks at how vaccines and prior infections provide some immunity as omicron continues to spread.Podcast, Show Me the Science January 13, 2022 Podcast: Hospitalized patients with COVID reach record levelsThis episode of 'Show Me the Science' looks at how our health-care system is attempting to keep up with the exploding number of sick patients during the virus’s latest wave.Podcast, Show Me the Science September 1, 2021 Early COVID-19 shutdowns helped St. Louis area avoid thousands of deathsDelays in implementing public health orders likely would have resulted in many more hospitalizations, deaths.News Release December 17, 2020 Historic, hopeful moment arrives as COVID-19 vaccinations begin on Medical CampusEmployees with close patient contact begin receiving Pfizer vaccine; older ages prioritized.Medical Campus & Community July 13, 2020 Podcast: Wildlife surveillance may help identify the next pandemicThis episode of 'Show Me the Science' focuses on monitoring and identifying pathogens that might jump from animals into humans.Podcast, Show Me the Science April 3, 2020 Medical Campus students mobilize to help health-care workers, communityEfforts include making face shields, summarizing research, providing child care, delivering food to those at risk.Medical Campus & Community January 31, 2018 ID’ing features of flu virus genome may help target surveillance for pandemic fluFindings may help health experts know which strains to watch.News Release Posts navigation