July 16, 2020

UC Marketing + Communications gathers recent uplifting stories to help the community focus on the good during coronavirus pandemic.

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.

July 21, 2020

National media outlets report on new UC findings that show immunotherapy will not worsen complications for patients who have cancer and COVID-19.

July 24, 2020

Steve Davidson, PhD, is trying to understand what occurs when COVID-19 invades the lungs causing the body’s immune cells go into overdrive. The University of Cincinnati researcher was part of a team of scientists studying the body’s response when viral particles carrying COVID-19 enter the lungs, and the body — specifically its immune system — and react in a catastrophic way.

July 28, 2020

Kermit Davis, PhD, conducted an ergonomic assessment of employees at the University of Cincinnati sending out an email survey to 4,500 faculty and staff after the coronavirus pandemic prompted the university to join many other employers across the nation in sending workers home to continue operations. The survey had 843 people complete it. As part of the study, 41 employees sent Davis photos of workers at home workstations for ergonomic review. This subset showed some trends and offered a glimpse into what many who work from home are encountering. The survey’s findings were recently published in the scholarly journal Ergonomics in Design.

July 29, 2020

Brett Kissela, MD, discusses ways UC researchers are making an impact during the COVID-19 pandemic.

July 30, 2020

Kermit Davis, PhD, expert in office ergonomics, conducted an ergonomic assessment of employees at the University of Cincinnati sending out an email survey to 4,500 faculty and staff after the coronavirus pandemic prompted the university to join many other employers across the nation in sending workers home to continue operations.

July 31, 2020

Maria Espinola, PsyD, assistant professor in the UC College of Medicine, explains what separates a nervous breakdown from an otherwise difficult time in your life is how well you can keep your emotions in check. Feelings that you would normally be able to manage can erupt. “During a nervous breakdown, fear can turn into terror, sadness into despair and hopelessness, and anger into rage and fury,” Espinola says.

August 4, 2020

Katherine Auger, MD, Cincinnati Children’s physician and UC associate professor of pediatrics, and Samir Shah, MD, Cincinnati Children’s physician and UC professor of pediatrics, are authors of a new COVID-19 study in the Journal of American Medical Association,. It found that closing schools across most of the U.S. in March, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, likely reduced infections by 1 million and saved more than 40,000 people from dying due to the virus.

August 5, 2020

Jeffrey Strawn, MD, teamed up with experts at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to create an app to help children deal with anxiety caused by the pandemic.