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Covid-19

Illustration of a gloved and masked person reaching out to touch an ungloved person
Losing touch
Published Summer 2020
Hopkins physician Sapna Kudchadkar details the physical and emotional toll of COVID-19, a disease she fought at home and on the front lines / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Empty Keyser Quad
Then it all changed
Published Summer 2020
In March, amid the early stages of a pandemic, Johns Hopkins leadership made a series of gut-wrenching decisions on the operations of the university that will have lasting effects. In a sense, it all started with a spectatorless basketball game. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
PekoPeko Ramen
Friends for Life
FEEDING A NEW NEED
Published Summer 2020
The Homewood campus alumni behind PekoPeko Ramen served frontline health care workers and those in need during COVID-19 / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Game on
Notebook
GAME ON
Published Summer 2020
Stay-at-home orders didn't keep Emma Alterman and her fellow alums from their weekly game night—they simply moved it online / Johns Hopkins Magazine
The coronavirus diaries
Afterwords
THE CORONAVIRUS DIARIES
Published Summer 2020
Leslie Farnsworth turned a new page by keeping a daily diary of her life during the coronavirus outbreak / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Volunteers pack food into boxes for families of Henderson-Hopkins students
COVID-19
Henderson-Hopkins pivots to provide community support
Published June 15, 2020
The Baltimore K-8 school has offered virtual town halls, food drives, free laptops, and more to help support families and students during coronavirus pandemic
Lauren Gardner
COVID-19
JHU researcher will build new tools to model pandemic's spread
Published June 12, 2020
Civil and systems engineer Lauren Gardner, whose COVID-19 global tracker is now world famous, will help construct databases to better understand how the coronavirus moves from person to person
A girl lies in a hospital bed with an IV in her hand
Q+A
Symptoms, treatments for COVID-19-linked illness in children
Published June 10, 2020
Johns Hopkins pediatric cardiologist Lasya Gaur discusses the rare but serious coronavirus-related illness known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C
Contact tracing
COVID-19
Jhpiego, Baltimore City announce tracing partnership
Published June 10, 2020
Baltimore Health Corps project will hire, train people to perform contact tracing to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus
Illustration of an arrow demolishing a coronavirus pathogen
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2 is mutating slowly, and that's a good thing
Published June 10, 2020
Johns Hopkins scientists studying the virus that causes COVID-19 say the pathogen has few variations, a promising observation that boosts the chances of developing an effective vaccine