Coronavirus

Nurse Lina Godfrey, wearing personal protective equipment, holding a newborn

6 Nightingales Reflect Commitment of Entire UConn Health Nursing Staff

Paying tribute to nurses who served during a year of unprecedented challenge

UConn Health Researchers Receive a $3.1 Million Dollar Grant to Study Pandemic-Related Stress in Families with Infants

Damion Grasso and Margaret Briggs-Gowan developed a tool to measure pandemic-related stress. They are now applying it in a study focused on families who gave birth and are now raising infants during the pandemic

A bar graph showing the weekly number of COVID-related lawsuits filed since the beginning of the pandemic.

UConn Law Students Help Keep Tabs on COVID-19 Litigation

Getting an in-depth understanding of civil litigation as it unfolds in real time

Photo multiple montage image of student kid afro human people of different age and ethnicity wearing surgical disposable and fabric breathing masks isolated over bright colorful background

Virtual Conference Brings Together Global Experts to Tackle COVID-19 “Infodemic”

Health behavior experts come together to put forth an agenda that uses social media to solve public health problems

Patients sitting in waiting room with face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even as vaccination rates rise, new variants of the coronavirus are prompting concern among experts.

How Worried Should You Be About Coronavirus Variants?

UConn virologist Paulo Verardi explains his concerns with new variants of the virus that are spreading rapidly

A doctor's stethoscope connected to a mobile phone. Students made phone calls to hundreds of COVID-19 patients, along with seniors isolated by the pandemic.

Power of a Phone Call: Medical Students Changing COVID-19 Patients’ Lives

Students have made more than 2,500 phone calls to COVID-19 patients and isolated seniors since the start of the pandemic

An older woman seen from behind as she receives the COVID-19 vaccine at an outdoor vaccination center. UConn Health researchers are studying why COVID-19 is so much deadlier for older adults, in a project that will yield insights into the effect of vaccines on adult immune systems.

Study Seeks to Learn Why COVID-19 Is So Deadly for the Old

Research that will provide valuable insights about how vaccines affect immune systems

A computer-generated illustration of a coronavirus microbe

Using Emerging Science to Tackle Emerging Disease

A new course in bioinformatics teaches students with real-world data for training in an emerging scientific discipline

The aftermath of a car crash at night, with emergency vehicles in the background. Although fewer cars are on the road during the pandemic, the number of fatal crashes has actually increased.

Traffic is Down on American Highways During the Pandemic – But Vehicle Deaths Are Up

During the stay-at-home period, the incidence rate of fatal single-vehicle crashes increased 4.1 times

Early COVID Patient at UConn Health Gets Life Back a Year Later

'One day I was a healthy 47-year-old, then it all happened so suddenly.'