Seeking Immunity Against COVID-19
Joel Ernst, MD, addresses key questions about how vaccine development works and why vaccines are especially important in the case of COVID-19.
University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFJoel Ernst, MD, addresses key questions about how vaccine development works and why vaccines are especially important in the case of COVID-19.
The pandemic has led to a sudden rise in discrimination against people of Asian descent.
When future historians look back on this moment, they will draw many conclusions from our response to this crisis. Here are five big lessons that UCSF experts already see taking shape.
Communities of color have been hit hardest by COVID-19. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in an outcry against police brutality. Both issues have roots in the same problem.
Homelessness expert Margot Kushel, MD, delves into what the COVID-19 crisis reveals about housing and health.
Clinical trial leader Annie Luetkemeyer, MD, tests promising therapies for COVID-19 – and soon a vaccine.
Hospitalist Sajan Patel, MD, remembers anxieties and revelations while caring for the Bay Area's first coronavirus patients.
Surgical charge nurse Alicia Catanese, RN, volunteered to help the Navajo Nation cope with its COVID surge.
Custodian Abie Stillman shares his reflections on essential work and what he would like instead of another thank-you.
Why are more men than women dying of COVID-19? Scientist Faranak Fattahi, PhD, has found a clue.
With campuses closed, Joseph Kidane serves with hundreds of his fellow medical students in a volunteer crisis workforce.
Kelly Timothy cares for some of the Bay Area’s sickest patients – and their families.
As Emergency Medicine Chief, Maria Raven, MD, takes charge of the hospital’s first line of defense.
UCSF Fresno physician Kenny Bahn, MD, fights both COVID-19 and inequity in the San Joaquin Valley.
Child life specialist Katie Craft helps young patients grapple with new fears.