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“The C.D.C. will have to be rebuilt, and its guidelines and the F.D.A.’s have to be promptly re-evaluated,” said Dr. Robert L. Murphy, director of the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University’s medical school. “The Biden team will move quickly. It’s not like they don’t know what to do.”

Lori Post is a professor of emergency medicine at Northwestern University who closely surveils COVID-19 data. She is expecting a “God awful” upward spike in cases about a week from now. There’s quite a few risk factors at play as the pandemic is accelerating all across the country.[…]Marc Sala is a pulmonologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Part of his job is managing ventilators for patients with COVID-19.

[VIDEO:] Hospitalizations on Thanksgiving hit a record high for the 17th straight day. Hospitals were already overwhelmed ahead of the holiday, and by next week nearly a quarter could face a staffing shortage.

“What makes people hesitant? They’re not sure it will work. Sometimes it’s about side effects. They want to know that it is indeed going to protect them, and that’s a message that we need to make sure we get out there,” said Kenzie Cameron, a research professor in general internal medicine and geriatrics at Northwestern Medicine. Cameron is a health services researcher with a background that includes health communication, and has studied racial and ethnic disparities in the flu vaccine.

Wegg was sent to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, where surgeon Dr. Ankit Bharat and his team performed the procedure. Another surgeon, Dr. Sam Kim, said she was in “terrible shape,” per the outlet. While healthy lungs have a “spongy nature,” Kim said the lungs in these coronavirus transplant patients “stiffen and harden.”

“It’s really an exaggerated cold response: When our body is cold it’s normal for our blood vessels at the periphery, such as in our fingers, to narrow to conserve core body heat,” said Dr. Emily Kiemig, a dermatologist and assistant professor at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who specializes in connective tissue and autoimmune diseases of the skin, and frequently cares for patients with Raynaud’s.

Maryann Mason, PhD, director of violence and injury research at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine’s Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics, evaluated a violence interruption program in Chicago, initially focusing on the role of mentoring at-risk young men in violence prevention.

Officials already struggle to interpret reams of data from different tests that can produce different results, said Gerardin, an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

Cases are already skyrocketing, and many people are experiencing “caution fatigue” — becoming desensitized to warnings out of exhaustion from observing safety guidance, said Jackie Gollan, a clinical psychologist and a professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who conducts research on how to make better decisions.

[VIDEO] Dr. Robert Murphy answers COVID-19 questions. Dr. Murphy is a professor of infectious disease at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the executive director of The Institute for Global Health.