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Covid-19

Adam Sheingate hands out food as part of the Baltimore County Student Support Network
Pandemic
Lending a helping hand
Published Feb 8, 2021
Professor Adam Sheingate takes a front-line role in helping distribute COVID-relief packages to Baltimore families
Pharmaceuticals on a shelf in a pharmacy
Public health
Public health researchers call for new measures to protect pharmaceutical supply chain
Published Feb 4, 2021
Shortages of important drugs amid COVID-19 crisis highlights need for policy changes
Screenshot of Coronavirus Resource Center tracker
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center honored
Published Feb 4, 2021
The site houses the famous COVID-19 global tracker map, as well as vital data repositories and interactive visualizations
Students physically distance in a Homewood campus classroom
University operations
Careful planning, safety precautions underpin JHU's in-person instruction
Published Feb 2, 2021
University officials have spent months honing the plans that will guide this week's resumption of in-person instruction
Two face masks with two heart-shaped blocks
Public health
Dating in the time of COVID-19
Published Jan 26, 2021
It may look different during a pandemic, but safe practices make dating work for single people—and perhaps bring added benefits
Map of the world is overtaken with red dots of various sizes
Coronavirus
One year of tracking the COVID-19 pandemic
Published Jan 22, 2021
On Jan. 22, 2020, a civil and systems engineering professor and her graduate student created a coronavirus tracker map that would become the world's leading source for real-time pandemic data
Discarded medical mask
Economics
High income associated with masking, social distancing compliance
Published Jan 15, 2021
Survey suggests common public health measures such as masking, social distancing, and telework may be inaccessible or impractical for those with lower incomes
SARS-CoV-2 virus particle
Coronavirus
What you need to know about COVID-19 variants
Published Jan 15, 2021
Is it normal for a virus to mutate? Are the new strains of coronavirus more contagious? Will COVID-19 vaccines still work? Expert immunologist Andy Pekosz weighs in.
Composite image of two women
COVID-19
Bloomberg alums share strategy from Biden's COVID-19 task force
Published Jan 15, 2021
Two Bloomberg School alums—now members of President-elect Biden's coronavirus task force—share the incoming administration's strategies for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic
ECG machine
COVID-19
Machine learning tool gives early warning of cardiac issues in COVID-19 patients
Published Jan 13, 2021
New algorithm could warn doctors in advance of cardiac arrest or blood clots in hospitalized COVID-19 patients