COVID-19

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Managing public health problems in real time

What started as a part-time teaching job blossomed into a series of remarkable roles for U of M student Sydney Redepenning.

Four people with a harvest of food for the Nutritious U food pantry.

Feature

The pantry in a time of pandemic

Boynton Health's Nutritious U food pantry is redoubling its efforts to meet the needs of students.

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.

Image of the Minneapolis, Minnesota skyline overlooking a highway with cars driving across it.

News Release

University of Minnesota national study shows COVID-19 pandemic substantially changed commuting patterns, access to jobs

New data reveal deeper impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic that differ by the three modes studied: auto, transit and biking.

Man wearing a surgical mask receiving a vaccine shot

News Release

Study reveals disparities in Minnesota’s COVID-19 vaccination rates

A new study from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) shows that vaccination rates for some racial and ethnic groups lagged behind rates for the state’s white population.

Research Brief

COVID-19 mortality spiked among white and rural populations in U.S. during Delta and Omicron waves

Racial disparities in U.S. COVID-19 deaths narrowed substantially from the first to the second year of the pandemic.

A blank COVID-19 vaccination card with a syringe and a glass bottom of vaccine sitting on top of it.

Research Brief

U of M faculty find that language barriers negatively affect clinical outcomes

Analysis examined COVID-19 vaccination rates and clinical outcomes and their relationship to language barriers and disparities.

Illustration of a person pulling a very large COVID-19 molecule behind them.

Talking with U of M

Talking long COVID with U of M

Three years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, many are still dealing with ongoing effects from COVID-19 infections. Dr. Farha Ikramuddin discusses long COVID and the research she and others are doing at the University surrounding it.

News Release

CIDRAP releases Coronavirus Vaccines R&D Roadmap to advance a new global strategy for broadly protective vaccines

Plan would accelerate a new approach to coronavirus vaccines research and development to protect against COVID-19 variants and future pandemic threats from new coronaviruses.

COVID-19 Story Archive