COVID-19 Coverage

Editor’s note: Information on the COVID-19 crisis is constantly changing. For the latest numbers and updates, keep checking the CDC’s website. For the most up-to-date information from Michigan Medicine, visit the hospital's Coronavirus (COVID-19) webpage. 

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COVID-19 advice from experts:

• How to Protect Your Mental and Physical Health This Holiday Season

• 4 Mask Myths That Put You at Risk

• 4 Strategies for Staying Healthy in a Quarantined World

• 5 Ways to Reduce Hearing Damage

• 5 Ways to Manage Your Mental Health During COVID-19

• 6 Ways to Relieve Your Work from Home Fatigue

• 14 Things to Do If Someone You Live With Has COVID-19

• Cooking at Home While Social Distancing

• Coping and Hoping: Mental Health Tips for Trying Times

• Don’t Ignore a Heart Attack, Even During a Pandemic

• Everyone vs. COVID-19: How You Can Help Science Make Progress

• Fear Can Spread From Person to Person Faster Than the Coronavirus

• Flattening the Curve for COVID-19: What Does It Mean and How Can You Help?

• Feeling Helpless About the Coronavirus? 11 Things You Can Do

• Feeling Stressed or Down in a World with COVID? Try This Writing Tool

• Feeling Helpless as the Pandemic Continues? 26 Things You Can Do to Help

• Hail to the Handwashers! A Musical Guide to Handwashing

• How to Keep COVID-19 From Invading Your “Pod” – and How to Stay Safe if It Does

• How to Care for Someone with COVID-19

• How to Have a Safe Holiday Season During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• How to Prepare for COVID-19

• How the Timing of Light Exposure Could Be Affecting Your Health

• Home Workspace Causing Back and Neck Pain? Try This

• Is it Safe to Travel in the Age of COVID-19?

• Is Stress from COVID-19 Upsetting Your Stomach? 7 Self Comfort Tips to Try

• Need to Get Out of the House? Give Blood – It’s Needed More Than Ever

• Pandemic Hitting You in the Wallet? How to Find Health Coverage or Low-Cost Medical Help

• Rehabilitation Care is Needed for Many COVID-19 Patients

• Should We Worry About COVID-19 Reinfection?

• Staying in Motion While Staying Put

• Staying Summer Safe During the Pandemic

• The COVID-19 Curve has Unflattened Fast. Now What?

• The Curve is Fattening, Not Flattening. What Can We Do?

• Using Music in Times of Anxiety

• Viruses Live on Doorknobs and Phones and Can Get You Sick – Smart Cleaning and Good Habits Can Help Protect You

• Vaccine Q&A: From Flu to COVID-19, Everything You Need to Know

• Why You Shouldn’t Delay Emergency Care During COVID-19

• Why You Should Continue Routine Cancer Screenings During COVID-19​​​​​

• With the COVID-19 Curve Flattening, It's Time to Prevent a Second Peak

• Yes, You Should Wear a Mask. Here’s How and Why

COVID-19 background and past pandemics:

• 100 Years of Stopping Contagion with Science

• COVID-19 Through the Lens of Basic Science

• How Quickly Does Coronavirus Spread?

• How Scientists Quantify the Intensity of an Outbreak Like COVID-19

• Lessons From the 1918 Pandemic: A U.S. City’s Past May Hold Clues

• Mask Resistance During a Pandemic Isn’t New – in 1918 Many Americans Were ‘Slackers’

• The 2019 Novel Coronavirus: Should You Be Worried?

• Updated Information on COVID-19: What Can You Do to Protect Against Coronavirus

COVID-19 and medical professionals:

• Primary Care in a Pandemic: Spotting Mental Health Needs During COVID and More

• Best Practices for Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with ARDS, COVID-19

• Should Medical Residency Interviews Be Capped?

• As More Doctors Get Drafted for COVID-19 Inpatient Care, a Trusted Reference Becomes Free

• During Pandemic, Medical Students Volunteer to Ensure No One Dies Alone

• Emergency Departments Across Michigan Collaborate on COVID-19 Response

• Health Care Workers Struggled With Mood, Sleep in First Months of COVID-19 Pandemic

• How the Old-Fashioned Telephone Could Become A New Way for Some to See Their Doctor

• How to Improve the Surgery Backlog During COVID-19

• Is COVID-19 Widening the Gender Gap in Academic Medicine?

• I'm a Family Doctor Fighting Against Fear and Struggling With Distancing While Trying to Keep My Patients Healthy

• Hospitals Can’t Get Back to Normal Without More Blood. Here Are 7 Ways You Can Help

• Outside Looking In: Hospital Visitor Rules Vary During Pandemic

• New Report Details Strategies for COVID-19 Critical Care Surge

• Nursing Homes Prepared for Pandemics, but COVID-19 Reveals Gaps

• Please Don’t (Need to) Use My Work

• Pivoting Critical Care Research to Help with the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Proactivity and Partnership Pay Off for Nursing Homes in a Pandemic

• Personalized Device Could Support Multiple COVID-19 Patients From Single Ventilator

• Redesigning Prenatal Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Repurposed Industrial Respirator Could Free Ventilators for COVID-19 Patients

• Switching Gears at High Speed for Hospital COVID-19 Care

• The COVID-19 Heroes You Haven’t Met Yet: Behind the Scenes of a Pandemic

• Which Operations Can Restart First? New Guide Helps Hospitals Decide

• With COVID-19, Applying for Residency Could Look Different for Aspiring Doctors

• What Can Hospitals Do to Prepare for COVID-19 Cases?

COVID-19 and medical conditions:

• Call for Health Care Providers to Advocate for Disability Rights During COVID-19

• 5 Reasons to Embrace At-Home Cardiac Rehab

• Adapting Common Fall Sports for People with Disabilities

• App Calculates Risk of Delaying Cancer Care During Pandemic

• Are Organ Transplant Recipients at Greater Risk of Death from COVID-19?

• African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes, Kidney Disease at Higher Risk of COVID-19 Hospitalization

• Cardiac Rehab Motivation in the Midst of COVID-19

• Cancer vs. COVID: When a Pandemic Upended Cancer Care

• Getting Through a Pandemic When You Have a Mental Health Condition

• How Should Radiation Oncologists Manage Prostate Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

• Weighing Risks and Benefits for Glaucoma Patients During COVID-19

• What to Know About COVID-19 if You Have Diabetes

COVID-19-related research:

• Many Families Unwilling to Skip Thanksgiving Gatherings During COVID-19

• Life After COVID-19 Hospitalization: Major Lasting Effects on Health, Work and More

• Are Digestive Issues a Symptom of COVID-19?

• COVID-19 Care is (Mostly) Free to Patients. Should Other Vital Care Be Too?

• Cardiac Arrest, Poor Survival Rates Common in Sickest Patients with COVID-19

• Discovering the Molecular Processes in Kidney Cells That Attract and Feed COVID-19

• Dying Alone During a Pandemic

• Even Before COVID-19, Many Adults Lacked Stable Food Supply

• Higher Levels of NETs in Blood Associated with More Severe COVID-19

• How Does COVID-19 Appear in the Lungs?

• Leveraging Prostate Cancer Research Against COVID-19

• Many Could Face Sky-High Surprise Bills from Air Ambulance Flights

• New Cause of COVID-19 Blood Clots Identified

• Real-Time Overdose Tracking Helps Show COVID-19’s Effects

• Telehealth Visits Skyrocket for Older Adults, but Concerns and Barriers Remain

• Too Many COVID-19 Patients Get Unneeded “Just in Case” Antibiotics

• What the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Reveals

COVID-19 vaccines, therapies, drugs and testing:

• COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Volunteers Explain Why They Signed Up

• COVID-19 Therapies: Where Are We?

• Over Half of Adults Over 50 Say They’ll Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19, but Many Will Want To Wait

• COVID-19: Behind the Scenes of Testing

• Chloroquine, Ibuprofen and Beyond: Doctors Discuss Latest Treatments, and Treatment Rumors, For COVID-19

• Drug That Calms ‘Cytokine Storm’ Associated with 45% Lower Risk of Dying among COVID-19 Patients on Ventilators

• Exploring a New Weapon Against COVID-19 Cytokine Storm

• ECMO: Last-Resort Life Support Option Helped Majority of Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Survive, Global Study Shows

• Questions and Answers About COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials

• Rates of Pulmonary Complications Drastically Reduced with Newer Drug

• The Top 5 COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates Explained

• The Pandemic Fight Over Plaquenil

• Two New Devices Protect Health Care Workers, Help Patients During COVID-19

• Testing the Deceased Could Provide Additional Surveillance Methods During Pandemic

• When Ventilators Don’t Help COVID-19 Patients, This Might

• Your ACE Inhibitor or ARB Medication: Is There a COVID-19 Connection?

COVID-19, kids and teens:

• 1 in 3 Parents Plan to Skip Flu Shots for Their Kids During COVID-19 Pandemic

• 5 Ways to Have a Safe Halloween During COVID-19

• 6 Ways to Support Children with Autism During the Pandemic

• 8 Ways to Help Teens Cope with Social Distancing Blues

• Coronavirus, Kids and School Closings

• How to Talk to Your Kids About COVID-19

• How to Prevent 7 Common Pediatric Injuries

• How to Support Children’s Emotional, Educational Needs while Remote Learning

• Helping Your Kids Overcome Stress-Related Sleep Disruption

• Making Back-to-School Decisions for Families with Underlying Health Conditions

• Stuck at Home? 6 Ways to Keep Your Kids Healthy and Happy

• Social Distancing with Kids

• Thrive With Your Family: Returning to “Normal”

• Thrive With Your Family: Having a Baby During a Pandemic

• Thrive With Your Family: Supporting Kids with Special Needs and Preventing Sibling Fights

• Thrive With Your Family: Teens and the Pandemic

• Thrive With Your Family: Supporting Kids With Chronic Diseases During COVID-19

• Thrive with Your Family: Processing Change

• Thrive with Your Family: Parental Self-Care, COVID-19 Anxiety and Managing Screen Time

• What Do Teens and Young Adults Need to Get Through the Pandemic? Survey Gives Insights

• Why the Relationship Between Kids and the Spread of COVID Remains Unclear

• What to Expect at Your Next Pediatric Appointment

COVID-19 patient stories:

• 'A New Take on Life' After Recovering from COVID-19

• Avoiding Crowds is Nothing New for 10-Year-Old with Bone Marrow Disease

• Celebrating 2020’s Little Victors Graduates

• Couple Welcomes New Baby in Hospital Driveway

• Cardiac Rehab at Home Helps Patient During COVID-19 Pandemic

• Conquering COVID-19: Michigan Medicine’s First Patient Shares His Story

• How to Support Children’s Emotional, Educational Needs while Remote Learning

• Getting Injured, and Getting Care, During a Pandemic

• One Nurse’s Journey: Surviving COVID-19, Facing a Long Road to Recovery

• Moms on the Frontlines

• Mother’s Day Wishes for 2020

• Making Back-to-School Decisions for Families with Underlying Health Conditions

• Self-Isolation: New to Us, Common for Cancer Patients

• Treating a Broken Bone During a Pandemic

• Treating One of Their Own: COVID-19 Breaks Myth of Invincibility for Hospital Doctors

• Teen Athlete Undergoes Brain Surgery During Pandemic

• Waiting to Dive Back In

• When a Pandemic Hits, But So Does a Heart Infection