COVID-19

Feature

Pandemic gives student real-world emergency management experience

A student’s experience providing services to the homeless during the pandemic solidified her sense of purpose while she pursued her degree.

Feature

Top of Mind episode 3: Beyond the pandemic, and a look at the PAWS program

Episode 3 of Top of Mind: Beyond the pandemic, and a look at the PAWS program

Hannah George in a medical lab doing testing

Feature

On the frontlines of COVID-19

The U of M’s Med Lab Sciences Program trains behind-the-scenes but critical medical professionals.

Research Brief

Household cats are more susceptible to coronavirus infection than dogs in early-pandemic Minnesota

A study by the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine found that household cats were more susceptible than dogs to natural infection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, early on during the pandemic in Minnesota.

Two medical professionals providing COVID-19 testing to a patient.

News Release

Study identifies racial/ethnic and language inequities in ways patients obtain COVID-19 virus testing

A recent study from researchers at the University of Minnesota is among the first to examine how different socio-demographic groups used telehealth, outpatient (clinic), emergency department and inpatient (hospital) care to test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.