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COVID-19 vaccine generates immune structures critical for lasting immunity
The first two COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employed a technology that had never before been used in FDA-approved vaccines. Both vaccines...
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/covid-19-vaccine-generates-immune-structures-critical-for-lasting-immunity/

Podcast: Vaccines approved for younger kids
...as our scientists and clinicians confront the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 has killed more than 5 million people around the world, with more than 740,000 dead in the United States. Although...
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/podcast-vaccines-approved-for-younger-kids/

Emergency department plays key role in evaluating COVID-19 tests
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, most Americans likely share the experience of anxiously awaiting the results of a COVID test, whether a lab-based PCR test administered at...
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/emergency-department-plays-key-role-in-evaluating-covid-19-tests/

Podcast: Vaccinating kids against COVID-19 likely to enhance school safety
...as our scientists and clinicians confront the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether and how children can return to classrooms has been hotly debated during the past year. Requiring teachers and students to...
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/podcast-vaccinating-kids-against-covid-19-likely-to-enhance-school-safety/

Students, faculty providing coronavirus-related outreach to Latino population
As stay-at-home orders to stem the spread of COVID-19 were announced in March, Austin Ibele, a first-year student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, investigated whether information...
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/students-faculty-providing-coronavirus-related-outreach-to-latino-population/

Lab-made virus mimics COVID-19 virus
...evaluate a range of antibody-based preventives and treatments for COVID-19. The virus could be used to assess whether an experimental vaccine elicits neutralizing antibodies, to measure whether a COVID-19 survivor...
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/lab-made-virus-mimics-covid-19-virus/

Podcast: Clinical trials launch to evaluate antimalarial, antidepressant drugs to treat COVID-19
...scientists and clinicians confront COVID-19. Although anecdotal reports have suggested certain therapies help some patients, there still are no proven treatments for the disorder. In this episode, we discuss repurposing...
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/podcast-clinical-trials-launch-to-evaluate-antimalarial-antidepressant-drugs-to-treat-covid-19/

Podcast: Success stories and challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic
...for a conversation about the COVID-19 pandemic. Walensky, an internationally recognized expert on HIV/AIDS, noted that her experiences during the AIDS epidemic influenced her thinking around the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/podcast-success-stories-and-challenges-from-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Podcast: Facing another pandemic holiday season
...as our scientists and clinicians confront the COVID-19 pandemic. The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is here, but it’s the delta variant that has been driving a rapid increase in COVID-19...
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/podcast-facing-another-pandemic-holiday-season/