UCSF Medicine Grand Rounds

Covid-19: Steroids and Other Therapies, & Covid Patients with Persistent Symptoms: What’s Going On?

Highlights Panel discussion of COVID patients with persistent symptoms and the long-term manifestations of the disease: 0:30:27 — COVID patients with persistent symptoms share their experience.0:44:55 — Dr. Michael Peluso (LIINC co-principal investigator) discusses the LIINC study and a clinical approach to COVID-19.0:54:02 — Dr. Jeffrey Martin (LIINC co-principal investigator) presents on the epidemiology of […]

Frontline

Interviews with Leaders Responding to the COVID-19 Epidemic

Our work with the UCSF HIV SCOPE cohort and performing translational infectious diseases studies helped provide the experience and infrastructure needed to efficiently develop these COVID-19 cohorts as the epidemic was unfolding. When it became clear that COVID-19 would become a pandemic, we quickly pivoted our HIV study infrastructure to recruit COVID-19 positive individuals with […]

San Francisco Chronicle

Long after the illness is gone, the damage from coronavirus may remain

The roulette wheel of infection that determines which COVID-19 patients live and die has gripped the world in fear, but researchers are looking into another insidious danger — that the disease could be inflicting lasting, even permanent, damage on its victims. Infectious disease specialists have learned that the health problems caused by the coronavirus sometimes […]