COVID-19

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.

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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

Research Brief

Practice interruptions more likely for physicians in 2020 than 2019

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the practice of medicine across the country. Most physicians saw visit volume plummet in March of 2020, only returning to pre-pandemic levels six months later.

Research Brief

U of M scientists develop a novel virus-like particle COVID-19 candidate vaccine

U of M researchers have developed a novel virus-like particle vaccine against COVID-19. Having been successfully tested in animals, the novel vaccine offers a new approach in the global battle against COVID-19 and its emerging variants.

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Talking how to safely attend large gatherings with the U of M

Beth Thielen at the Medical School discusses how to safely attend large gatherings and events this summer. This release was updated August 2021 to accommodate an uptick in COVID-19 cases.

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Talking COVID-19 vaccines and children with the U of M

Jill Foster at the Medical School demystifies some of the concerns for parents of unvaccinated kids.

News Release

Learning from llamas, U of M scientists develop a candidate COVID-19 drug

U of M researchers have developed a candidate drug that was effective in both preventing and quelling SARS-CoV-2 infection in animals, signaling potential in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic if it can be validated in human trials.

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.

COVID-19 Story Archive