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A child takes a COVID-19 test
COVID-19
Study: Children's antibody responses to COVID-19 are stronger than adults'
Published March 22, 2022
Findings differ from earlier reports of low antibody responses in children exposed to COVID-19 virus and suggest that even the youngest children may respond to vaccines if correct dose is determined
Poster for Paradise app
Artificial intelligence
Trouble in Paradise?
Published March 22, 2022
Immersive audio experience developed at Johns Hopkins brings cutting-edge storytelling to confront intimate partner abuse
A vial of cerebrospinal fluid
Brain cancer
Cerebrospinal fluid may be able to identify aggressive brain tumors in children
Published March 22, 2022
Findings suggest liquid biopsy using cerebrospinal fluid may be a potential method for diagnosing medulloblastoma and detecting tumor recurrences
Traffic sign points to county health department
Public health
Study: Harassment of public health officials widespread during initial phase of COVID-19 pandemic
Published March 17, 2022
Among local and state public health officials who resigned or were fired during the first 11 months of the pandemic, more than a third reported incidents of harassment
Packages of pills
Public health
Patient safety program reduces unnecessary antibiotic use in long-term care facilities, study finds
Published March 17, 2022
A study showed that antibiotic stewardship programs helped limit the unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics in long-term care facilities
A graphic image of people, some wearing masks and others not
COVID-19
How to approach the 'great unmasking'
Published March 14, 2022
As mask mandates lift across the country, public health experts offer insight on how to continue to protect vulnerable loved ones
A person receives a COVID-19 vaccine
Perspective
Looking back on two years of the COVID-19 pandemic
Published March 11, 2022
From the earliest days of COVID-19's detection and spread in January 2020, Johns Hopkins has played a critical role both globally and locally, as a trusted and indispensable source of reliable data, public health expertise, community support, and compassionate health care delivery
A house is fumigated
Environmental health
Researcher sheds light on the main source of a rare but destructive greenhouse gas
Published March 11, 2022
Environmental health and engineering PhD student Dylan Gaeta discusses his study linking the unregulated insecticide sulfuryl fluoride to a common fumigation practice in California
Ellen MacKenzie
Faculty honors
Ellen MacKenzie joins commission to envision a national public health system
Published March 4, 2022
The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a National Public Health System will identify key steps for strengthening U.S. public health infrastructure
A healthcare worker readies a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccine clinic operated by Johns Hopkins at Port Discovery in February 2022
Coronavirus
Key COVID-19 metrics decline, but experts say it's far from over
Published Feb 28, 2022
COVID-19 is inching toward endemic status in the U.S., but a clear seasonal pattern has yet to emerge. Meanwhile less than 66% of the total population has been vaccinated.