January 6, 2021

WVXU reporter Michael Monks spoke to UC faculty members, Dustin Calhoun, MD, and Louito Edje, MD, for a Cincinnati Edition story discussing the process for COVID-19 vaccination in Cincinnati and hesitancy that some residents have in receiving that protective measure. Ohio residents age 65 and older, school employees and people with medical conditions that put them at high-risk will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in about two weeks.

February 13, 2021

Rahul Patel, a senior studying medical sciences at the University of Cincinnati, and William Miller, PhD, a professor in the College of Medicine, spoke with Spectrum News about a new course titled Science of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

March 8, 2021

Ahmad Sedaghat, MD, PhD, associate professor in the University of Cincinnati Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, spoke with WVXU about COVID-19's impact on the sense of taste and smell. His discussion comes as the one-year anniversary of large scale quarantine orders being issues across the nation in the wake of the pandemic.

December 16, 2020

Ahmad R. Sedaghat, MD, PhD, director of the division of rhinology, allergy, and anterior skull base surgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, told ENT Today that because COVID-19 is a viral infection, patients may experience more severe body aches, lethargy, and fatigue compared to a bacterial sinus infection.

July 20, 2020

Ahmad Sedaghat, MD, PhD, associate professor in the UC College of Medicine and UC Health physician, spoke with journalist Terry DeMio about a correlation between the loss of smell and taste and depression in COVID-19 patients.

October 15, 2020

Sian Cotton, PhD, director of the UC Center for Integrative Health and Wellness, and UC family medicine professor, spoke with Fox 19 about using mindfulness techniques to cope in the midst of a stressful COVID-19 impacted world. Cotton explains how a mindfulness practice can help increase our focus and reduce our ability to not waste time. To be focused in the moment allows us to attend to the task at hand and get the job done with time to enjoy life, explains Cotton.

April 23, 2020

Dr. Kenneth Sherman, director of the University of Cincinnati Division of Digestive Diseases, is using a $48,000 pilot grant from the UC College of Medicine, to examine the replication of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the pathogen of COVID-19, in liver cells to determine patterns of injury and understand resulting innate immune responses.

May 5, 2021

Should we enroll our child in a COVID-19 vaccine trial? The topic is one that Elizabeth Lanphier, PhD, an assistant professor in the UC Department of Pediatrics, tackles in an opinion piece with The Hastings Center. Lanphier is also a clinical ethicist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

May 28, 2021

Louito Edje, MD, a University of Cincinnati family medicine physician, says that long-standing relationships doctors have built with patients may will help in reaching 80% herd immunity against COVID-19. Edje, an associate dean of graduate medical education at the UC College of Medicine and UC Medical Center, spoke to WCPO-TV about combating vaccine hesitancy in communities of color.

June 1, 2021

Goodnet, an online publication, discussed some common mistakes individuals make when working from home office spaces. Kermit Davis, PhD, a University of Cincinnati College of Medicine professor, offered a few tips about your chair, desk and placement of your laptop in your home office space.