January 4, 2021

Richard Becker, MD, director of the UC Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute, spoke with WVXU for a segment about his interaction with former COVID patients who are still battling health ailments related to fighting off the pandemic. Becker said worldwide there are 80 million known cases of COVID-19 and 1.7 million who died as a result. That means more than 78 million people have survived infection including 600,000 in the state of Ohio.

January 4, 2021

Tina Cheng, MD, chair of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and director of the Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, spoke with CNN Health about the depression Asians are experiencing as a result of pandemic-related racism.

January 5, 2021

Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the UC College of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases was interviewed by WLWT-TV for a story on the FDA considering distributing half doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to people between the ages of 18-55 in order to stretch the supply of the vaccine.

January 5, 2021

Peel9, a Cincinnati Business Courier 2020 Innovation-Technology award winner, is a 1819 Innovation Hub-supported records management and analytics company that serves the law enforcement community. Cincinnati Future had the opportunity to speak with CEO and co-founder Todd Levy about the company's origins and the tech behind it.

January 5, 2021

Drugs.com reports that COVID-19 has caused significant disruption in lung cancer screening.

January 6, 2021

Rajat Madan, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine was interviewed by the Washington Post for a story on the disproportionate suffering of obese Americans from COVID-19.

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.

January 8, 2021

Brett Kissela, MD, senior associate dean for clinical research at the UC College of Medicine and chief of research services at UC Health, learned he received the placebo in the Moderna vaccine clinical trial. He then received the real vaccine to show that he believes in the science.

January 11, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine providers across Ohio will soon get better guidance about the next steps for getting shots into arms. Brett Kissela, MD, spoke to WLWT-TV, Channel 5 and said the benefits of the vaccine outweigh any potential side effects.

January 11, 2021

Associate professor David Niven comments on Jan. 6 Capitol breach.