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UCSF Medical Grand Rounds talks treatments and lingering symptoms
Today’s hefty Grand Rounds discussion may have been harder to follow for viewers of the popular series who do not have a medical background or are unfamiliar with medical jargon. Still, it offered...
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Study asserts inequality drove COVID-19 transmission in the Mission District
The high rates of COVID-19 in the Mission District can be explained by social and economic disparities, according to an unreviewed paper published on Wednesday. The preprint, which means the study has...
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UCSF Grand Rounds sits down with author of best-selling 1918 flu history
Author John M. Barry, who wrote a best-selling history of the 1918 influenza, painted a grim picture of a pandemic-stricken nation in this week’s UCSF Medical Grand Rounds. “It is only a matter of a...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: A tale of four COVID-19-ridden cities
Back in March, the idea that one could talk about COVID-19 surges in several states without widespread panic was unthinkable. Today, as the country faces a surge so severe that President Donald Trump...
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By mid-afternoon on its first day, COVID-19 testing at 24th Street BART had...
At 5:55 a.m. this morning, a woman in her early 70s stood outside the 24th Street BART station to wait for the pop-up COVID-19 testing site that would open an hour later. “I’m on time,” she said,...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Vaccine and testing and treatments, oh my!
Vaccine unlikely until late 2021, experts say We’re certainly not in Kansas anymore — and if you’re wondering when you can click your heels together three times and return to pre-COVID-19 normalcy,...
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Testing site at 24th Street BART closes hours early after flying through 500...
The COVID-19 testing site at the 24th Street BART Station ran out of tests five hours before it was set to close today. The pop-up site at the BART station operated for the second time today in an...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Harvard expert Jha says U.S. response spelled failure
Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of Harvard’s Global Health Institute, does some 20 to 25 interviews a day on health policy. In this week’s UCSF Grand Rounds with Dr. Bob Wachter, Jha dug into the nuances...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Rapid testing, herd immunity, and narrative
At UCSF Grand Rounds on Thursday, moderator Bob Wachter introduced three topics: rapid testing, herd immunity and the role of narrative in the pandemic. It was time, he said, for “out of the box”...
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More testing, contact tracing needed in city’s Southeast, doctors say
There’s a reason why activists of color are constantly pushing for increased covid-19 testing in the Southeast sector of San Francisco. It’s where those most vulnerable to the virus live: Blacks,...
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UCSF/24th St. COVID-19 study reveals 11% Latinx infection rate
Latinx residents hit hardest by pandemic A study released today by UCSF underscored the importance of ramping up testing for Latinx residents in the Southeast sector of the city, after results showed...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Regional Covid-19 updates, low mortality rates and a...
Oh, to be in the days when all we were dealing with was the triple pandemic of Covid-19, economic turmoil and systemic racism. As massive wildfires rage across California, Oregon and Washington, two...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Vaccine Nationalism, Allocation, and Trust
Understanding the complexities of vaccine development, manufacturing, distribution and uptake in the middle of a global pandemic is a difficult task—even without a 75-minute time limit. Add to this...
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Updated: 16th Street BART becomes one-stop-shop for free covid tests and flu...
Clad in vibrant orange and face-shields, Unidos En Salud volunteers scampered alongside BART commuters as they exited the 16th Street Mission BART Plaza, asking if they want a free covid-19 test and...
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Rapid tests for Covid-19 could hold “promising” possibilities, new data from...
Rapid tests might hold “promising” possibilities to prevent the spread of Covid-19, according to the lead researcher of a University of California San Francisco/Latino Task Force study conducted in...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Wisconsin frontline updates and weighing risks in the...
With 12 days until a highly contentious election, a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is appearing in various stages across the United States — California is a notable exception, at least so...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: A conversation on the election, the pandemic and the...
During today’s Grand Rounds, UCSF Department of Medicine Chair and Grand Rounds moderator Bob Wachter called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden. Sort of. In an unstructured conversation,...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: The vaccine is coming — soon
Doctors say the vaccine is on a clear path to be "in the arms of the public" by late December UCSF Grand Rounds: The vaccine is coming — soon is from Mission Local, a site that's been all up in the...
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Covid-19 “Healthy Holidays” testing offered before and after Thanksgiving
The University of California at San Francisco, the Latino Task Force and other community groups will conduct free Covid-19 testing before and after the Thanksgiving holiday in a “Healthy Holidays”...
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A look inside UCSF’s hand sanitizer factory
The Shokat Lab at UC San Francisco’s Genentech Hall in Mission Bay is ordinarily a hive of scientists working to develop cancer therapies. But since the coronavirus pandemic shut down most...
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