Dr. Vijay Yeldani, clinical professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, said he is seeing whole families sick with COVID. He's a Chicago doctor helping out in India. No one is able to take care of each other, and hospitals are overflowing, he said. "Right now it's terrible," Yeldani said. Yeldani is a [...]
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Dr. Richard Novak, chief of infectious diseases weighs in on how soon you are immune to the coronavirus after receiving the COVID19 vaccine. Click here to read the full article.
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A conversation on COVID-19 in Chicago’s Latinx Community Presented by the Department of Medicine Inclusion Council Panelists: Allison Arwady, MD, MPH Commissioner Chicago Department of Public Health Maximo O. Brito, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Chicago Latinx COVID-19 Prevention Task Force Miguel Blancarte Jr. Regional Director of Community [...]
"Rising to the Challenge” is a new six-part podcast series from the University of Illinois System and WILL Radio TV Online that explores work from across the U of I System to combat COVID-19. Each episode takes you behind the scenes to learn about exciting new discoveries and initiatives directly from the experts. The podcast [...]
Richard Novak, MD The University of Illinois at Chicago is enrolling patients in a second clinical trial to study the drug remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19. Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), this international randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial will study the antiviral drug in combination with an [...]
Left to Right: Drs. Jerry Krishnan and Richard Novak The University of Illinois at Chicago is participating in two separate clinical trials led by Jerry Krishnan, MD, PhD and Richard Novak, MD for COVID-19 treatments. COVID-19 is caused by a highly contagious virus called SARS-CoV-2 that results in acute lung injury and respiratory [...]
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