COVID-19 Coverage

This article was updated on February 16, 2021.

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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Jump to sections about:

• COVID-19 advice from experts
• COVID-19 background and past pandemics
• COVID-19 and medical professionals
• COVID-19 and medical conditions
• COVID-19-related research
• COVID-19 vaccines, therapies, drugs and testing
• COVID-19, kids and teens
• COVID-19 patient stories

COVID-19 advice from experts:

1. Your Smartphone Can Help Fight COVID. Here’s How.
2. 10 Pandemic Tips for Older Adults (and the People Who Love Them)
3. A Caregiver Check-In
4. Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
5. 10 Expert COVID-19 Tips to Follow in 2021
6. What Do New SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Mean?
7. COVID-19 Variants: What Do New Mutations to SARS-CoV-2 Mean?
8. It’s Time To Make the Most of Masks. Here’s 11 Ways To Do It
9. From Pandemic to Purpose
10. How to Search for COVID-19 Information Online
11. The First Vaccines for COVID-19: What We Know So Far
12. How to Protect Your Mental and Physical Health This Holiday Season
13. 4 Mask Myths That Put You at Risk
14. 4 Strategies for Staying Healthy in a Quarantined World
15. 5 Ways to Reduce Hearing Damage
16. 5 Ways to Manage Your Mental Health During COVID-19
17. 6 Ways to Relieve Your Work from Home Fatigue
18. 14 Things to Do If Someone You Live With Has COVID-19
19. Cooking at Home While Social Distancing
20. Coping and Hoping: Mental Health Tips for Trying Times
21. Don’t Ignore a Heart Attack, Even During a Pandemic
22. Everyone vs. COVID-19: How You Can Help Science Make Progress
23. Fear Can Spread From Person to Person Faster Than the Coronavirus
24. Flattening the Curve for COVID-19: What Does It Mean and How Can You Help?
25. Feeling Helpless About the Coronavirus? 11 Things You Can Do
26. Feeling Stressed or Down in a World with COVID? Try This Writing Tool
27. Feeling Helpless as the Pandemic Continues? 26 Things You Can Do to Help
28. Hail to the Handwashers! A Musical Guide to Handwashing
29. How to Keep COVID-19 From Invading Your “Pod” – and How to Stay Safe if It Does
30. How to Care for Someone with COVID-19
31. How to Have a Safe Holiday Season During the COVID-19 Pandemic
32. How to Prepare for COVID-19
33. How the Timing of Light Exposure Could Be Affecting Your Health
34. Home Workspace Causing Back and Neck Pain? Try This
35. Is it Safe to Travel in the Age of COVID-19?
36. Is Stress from COVID-19 Upsetting Your Stomach? 7 Self Comfort Tips to Try
37. Need to Get Out of the House? Give Blood – It’s Needed More Than Ever
38. Pandemic Hitting You in the Wallet? How to Find Health Coverage or Low-Cost Medical Help
39. Rehabilitation Care is Needed for Many COVID-19 Patients
40. Should We Worry About COVID-19 Reinfection?
41. Staying in Motion While Staying Put
42. Staying Summer Safe During the Pandemic
43. The COVID-19 Curve has Unflattened Fast. Now What?
44. The Curve is Fattening, Not Flattening. What Can We Do?
45. Using Music in Times of Anxiety
46. Viruses Live on Doorknobs and Phones and Can Get You Sick – Smart Cleaning and Good Habits Can Help Protect You
47. Vaccine Q&A: From Flu to COVID-19, Everything You Need to Know
48. Why You Shouldn’t Delay Emergency Care During COVID-19
49. Why You Should Continue Routine Cancer Screenings During COVID-19​​​​​
50. With the COVID-19 Curve Flattening, It's Time to Prevent a Second Peak
51. Yes, You Should Wear a Mask. Here’s How and Why

COVID-19 background and past pandemics:

1. 12 Things Science Taught Us About COVID-19 This Past Year
2. Why Do Contagious Diseases Evade Eradication?
3. 100 Years of Stopping Contagion with Science
4. COVID-19 Through the Lens of Basic Science
5. How Quickly Does Coronavirus Spread?
6. How Scientists Quantify the Intensity of an Outbreak Like COVID-19
7. Lessons From the 1918 Pandemic: A U.S. City’s Past May Hold Clues
8. Mask Resistance During a Pandemic Isn’t New – in 1918 Many Americans Were ‘Slackers’
9. The 2019 Novel Coronavirus: Should You Be Worried?
10. Updated Information on COVID-19: What Can You Do to Protect Against Coronavirus

COVID-19 and medical professionals:

1. Applying Extended Reality Technologies to Rounds
2. COVID-19 Becomes Focus of Medical Student’s CNN Internship
3. Should Medical Residency Interviews Be Capped?
4. How to Make Sure People Get the Second Dose of the COVID-19 Vaccine
5. COVID-19 Deaths Really Are Different. But Best Practices for ICU Care Should Still Apply
6. Anti-Racism and Dr. Susan Moore’s Legacy
7. New Guides Offer Advice and Wisdom from COVID-19 Patients and Caregivers
8. Primary Care in a Pandemic: Spotting Mental Health Needs During COVID and More
9. Best Practices for Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with ARDS, COVID-19
10. Should Medical Residency Interviews Be Capped?
11. As More Doctors Get Drafted for COVID-19 Inpatient Care, a Trusted Reference Becomes Free
12. During Pandemic, Medical Students Volunteer to Ensure No One Dies Alone
13. Emergency Departments Across Michigan Collaborate on COVID-19 Response
14. Health Care Workers Struggled With Mood, Sleep in First Months of COVID-19 Pandemic
15. How the Old-Fashioned Telephone Could Become A New Way for Some to See Their Doctor
16. How to Improve the Surgery Backlog During COVID-19
17. Is COVID-19 Widening the Gender Gap in Academic Medicine?
18. I'm a Family Doctor Fighting Against Fear and Struggling With Distancing While Trying to Keep My Patients Healthy
19. Hospitals Can’t Get Back to Normal Without More Blood. Here Are 7 Ways You Can Help
20. Outside Looking In: Hospital Visitor Rules Vary During Pandemic
21. New Report Details Strategies for COVID-19 Critical Care Surge
22. Nursing Homes Prepared for Pandemics, but COVID-19 Reveals Gaps
23. Please Don’t (Need to) Use My Work
24. Pivoting Critical Care Research to Help with the COVID-19 Pandemic
25. Proactivity and Partnership Pay Off for Nursing Homes in a Pandemic
26. Personalized Device Could Support Multiple COVID-19 Patients From Single Ventilator
27. Redesigning Prenatal Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
28. Repurposed Industrial Respirator Could Free Ventilators for COVID-19 Patients
29. Switching Gears at High Speed for Hospital COVID-19 Care
30. The COVID-19 Heroes You Haven’t Met Yet: Behind the Scenes of a Pandemic
31. Which Operations Can Restart First? New Guide Helps Hospitals Decide
32. With COVID-19, Applying for Residency Could Look Different for Aspiring Doctors
33. What Can Hospitals Do to Prepare for COVID-19 Cases?

COVID-19 and medical conditions:

1. Call for Health Care Providers to Advocate for Disability Rights During COVID-19
2. 5 Reasons to Embrace At-Home Cardiac Rehab
3. Adapting Common Fall Sports for People with Disabilities
4. App Calculates Risk of Delaying Cancer Care During Pandemic
5. Are Organ Transplant Recipients at Greater Risk of Death from COVID-19?
6. African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes, Kidney Disease at Higher Risk of COVID-19 Hospitalization
7. Cardiac Rehab Motivation in the Midst of COVID-19
8. Cancer vs. COVID: When a Pandemic Upended Cancer Care
9. Getting Through a Pandemic When You Have a Mental Health Condition
10. How Should Radiation Oncologists Manage Prostate Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
11. Weighing Risks and Benefits for Glaucoma Patients During COVID-19
12. What to Know About COVID-19 if You Have Diabetes

COVID-19-related research:

1. Cold is Gold for COVID-19 Scientists
2. Is it Safe to Perform CPR During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
3. Indoors and Outdoors, COVID-19 Reveals Unequal Access
4. Subset of COVID-19 Patients Have Increased Bleeding Risk
5. Are Women Physicians Fairly Represented in the COVID-19 News Cycle?
6. COVID Forced Psychiatric Care Online, and Many Patients Want It to Stay There, Study Finds
7. 45% of Adults Over 65 Lack Online Medical Accounts, Which Could Affect COVID-19 Vaccination
8. County by County, Study Shows Social Inequality in COVID-19’s Toll
9. Racially Biased Oxygen Readings Could Be Putting Patients at Risk
10. Concern About Loved Ones Might Motivate People to Mask Up and Get Vaccine
11. COVID-19 Found in The Cornea: Are Transplants a Transmission Risk?
12. From the Heart: Study Shows Impact of Social Media Appeals from COVID-19 Frontliners
13. Similar Factors Cause Health Disparities in Cancer, COVID-19
14. Using Machine Learning to Predict Which COVID-19 Patients Will Get Worse
15. First 10 Days After Leaving Hospital Carry High Risk for COVID-19 Patients
16. Many Families Unwilling to Skip Thanksgiving Gatherings During COVID-19
17. Life After COVID-19 Hospitalization: Major Lasting Effects on Health, Work and More
18. Are Digestive Issues a Symptom of COVID-19?
19. COVID-19 Care is (Mostly) Free to Patients. Should Other Vital Care Be Too?
20. Cardiac Arrest, Poor Survival Rates Common in Sickest Patients with COVID-19
21. Discovering the Molecular Processes in Kidney Cells That Attract and Feed COVID-19
22. Dying Alone During a Pandemic
23. Even Before COVID-19, Many Adults Lacked Stable Food Supply
24. Higher Levels of NETs in Blood Associated with More Severe COVID-19
25. How Does COVID-19 Appear in the Lungs?
26. Leveraging Prostate Cancer Research Against COVID-19
27. Many Could Face Sky-High Surprise Bills from Air Ambulance Flights
28. New Cause of COVID-19 Blood Clots Identified
29. Real-Time Overdose Tracking Helps Show COVID-19’s Effects
30. Telehealth Visits Skyrocket for Older Adults, but Concerns and Barriers Remain
31. Too Many COVID-19 Patients Get Unneeded “Just in Case” Antibiotics
32. What the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Reveals

COVID-19 vaccines, therapies, drugs and testing:

1. What Happens After You Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?
2. Should Pregnant and Breastfeeding Patients Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?
3. Not Sure About the COVID-19 Vaccine? Get the Facts, Then Decide
4. The First Vaccines for COVID-19: What We Know So Far
5. Prostate Cancer Regulator Plays Role in COVID-19, Providing a Promising Treatment Lead
6. COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Volunteers Explain Why They Signed Up
7. COVID-19 Therapies: Where Are We?
8. Over Half of Adults Over 50 Say They’ll Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19, but Many Will Want To Wait
9. COVID-19: Behind the Scenes of Testing
10. Chloroquine, Ibuprofen and Beyond: Doctors Discuss Latest Treatments, and Treatment Rumors, For COVID-19
11. Drug That Calms ‘Cytokine Storm’ Associated with 45% Lower Risk of Dying among COVID-19 Patients on Ventilators
12. Exploring a New Weapon Against COVID-19 Cytokine Storm
13. ECMO: Last-Resort Life Support Option Helped Majority of Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Survive, Global Study Shows
14. Questions and Answers About COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials
15. Rates of Pulmonary Complications Drastically Reduced with Newer Drug
16. The Top 5 COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates Explained
17. The Pandemic Fight Over Plaquenil
18. Two New Devices Protect Health Care Workers, Help Patients During COVID-19
19. Testing the Deceased Could Provide Additional Surveillance Methods During Pandemic
20. When Ventilators Don’t Help COVID-19 Patients, This Might
21. Your ACE Inhibitor or ARB Medication: Is There a COVID-19 Connection?

COVID-19, kids and teens:

1. Returning to In-Person School During COVID-19
2. Screen Time, Emotional Health Among Parents’ Top Concerns for Kids in Pandemic
3. Kids, Sports and COVID-19: 5 Steps for Parents to Follow
4. 1 in 3 Parents Plan to Skip Flu Shots for Their Kids During COVID-19 Pandemic
5. 5 Ways to Have a Safe Halloween During COVID-19
6. 6 Ways to Support Children with Autism During the Pandemic
7. 8 Ways to Help Teens Cope with Social Distancing Blues
8. Coronavirus, Kids and School Closings
9. How to Talk to Your Kids About COVID-19
10. How to Prevent 7 Common Pediatric Injuries
11. How to Support Children’s Emotional, Educational Needs while Remote Learning
12. Helping Your Kids Overcome Stress-Related Sleep Disruption
13. Making Back-to-School Decisions for Families with Underlying Health Conditions
14. Stuck at Home? 6 Ways to Keep Your Kids Healthy and Happy
15. Social Distancing with Kids
16. Thrive With Your Family: Returning to “Normal”
17. Thrive With Your Family: Having a Baby During a Pandemic
18. Thrive With Your Family: Supporting Kids with Special Needs and Preventing Sibling Fights
19. Thrive With Your Family: Teens and the Pandemic
20. Thrive With Your Family: Supporting Kids With Chronic Diseases During COVID-19
21. Thrive with Your Family: Processing Change
22. Thrive with Your Family: Parental Self-Care, COVID-19 Anxiety and Managing Screen Time
23. What Do Teens and Young Adults Need to Get Through the Pandemic? Survey Gives Insights
24. Why the Relationship Between Kids and the Spread of COVID Remains Unclear
25. What to Expect at Your Next Pediatric Appointment

COVID-19 patient stories:

1. Surgery Team Keeps Fighting to Save Veteran
2. Liver Transplant Recipient Fights Off COVID-19
3. Hospitalized Kids Enjoy Gaming Diversions Thanks to U-M Football Legends
4. Giving Back After COVID-19
5. 'A New Take on Life' After Recovering from COVID-19
6. Avoiding Crowds is Nothing New for 10-Year-Old with Bone Marrow Disease
7. Celebrating 2020’s Little Victors Graduates
8. Couple Welcomes New Baby in Hospital Driveway
9. Cardiac Rehab at Home Helps Patient During COVID-19 Pandemic
10. Conquering COVID-19: Michigan Medicine’s First Patient Shares His Story
11. How to Support Children’s Emotional, Educational Needs while Remote Learning
12. Getting Injured, and Getting Care, During a Pandemic
13. One Nurse’s Journey: Surviving COVID-19, Facing a Long Road to Recovery
14. Moms on the Frontlines
15. Mother’s Day Wishes for 2020
16. Making Back-to-School Decisions for Families with Underlying Health Conditions
17. Self-Isolation: New to Us, Common for Cancer Patients
18. Treating a Broken Bone During a Pandemic
19. Treating One of Their Own: COVID-19 Breaks Myth of Invincibility for Hospital Doctors
20. Teen Athlete Undergoes Brain Surgery During Pandemic
21. Waiting to Dive Back In
22. When a Pandemic Hits, But So Does a Heart Infection