Media Coverage
The work done by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members (and even some students) is regularly highlighted in newspapers, online media outlets and more. Below you’ll find links to articles and videos of Feinberg in the news.
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Chicago Tribune
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Chicago police issued more dispersal orders on West Side in early days of stay-at-home order than other parts of the city, including the lakefront
Dr. Michael Angarone, an assistant professor of medicine in infectious diseases at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said drug addicts could be in danger of acquiring or spreading COVID-19 not only if they’re purchasing narcotics as part of a large group, but if they use IV-based drugs, they could be at a higher risk for infections, such as HIV, that weaken their immune systems.
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WBEZ
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COVID Toes Skin Disease Gains A Foothold Across The Country
In the Chicago area, teens and young adults are developing red, purple, sore and itchy toes that doctors are informally calling “COVID toes.” Dr. Amy Paller, the chair of dermatology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said that in the past week she’s gotten more than 50 reports of new pediatric cases in the Chicago area. She said she expects many more cases as news of the condition spreads.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Northwestern Memorial testing drug for severe COVID cases
“Very often with new diseases, people try multiple things at once, making it difficult to tell what, if anything, worked,” Dr. Richard Wunderink, Northwestern’s medical intensive care unit director, said in the statement. “Researchers in China gave a similar drug to a small number of people and observed what they thought were good effects. It is important to confirm—or not—these findings before we use this medication routinely. We also need to look to see if there are unexpected side effects of the drug in these patients.”
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Yahoo! News
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The Black community is being disproportionately affected right now — here’s what you can do
Dr. Ben Singer, an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, believes the disparity has had a lot to do with factors such as pre-existing health issues along with limited access to medical services. Black and Hispanic workers are also more likely that their white counterparts to work at jobs that pay per hours, they are also more vulnerable to layoffs.
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U.S. News & World Report
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Up to 50,000 U.S. Kids May Be Hospitalized With COVID-19 by Year’s End
Dr. Marcelo Malakooti, medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, said his hospital has had children with COVID-19 infections, but added, “Our numbers are not very high, but it’s really too early to know how coronavirus will affect the pediatric population at large.”
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NPR
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In New York Nursing Homes, Death Comes To Facilities With More People Of Color
“It is not surprising that this is exaggerated,” Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said of NPR’s findings of the racial imbalance in deaths at nursing homes. He wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association about the long history of racial disparities in health care and how it plays out now in this pandemic
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HealthDay
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Are Immune-Compromised Kids at Greater Risk From COVID-19?
Dr. Mehreen Arshad, a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University in Chicago, agreed that there’s just not a lot of data on children and COVID-19 yet, especially kids with compromised immune systems. She said that immunocompromised children likely have less risk from COVID-19 than older adults do, but they may have more risk than children with healthy immune systems. She added it’s important to “take all precautions” to lessen the risk of infection for these children.
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HealthDay
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What Will a Reopening of America Look Like?
There also has to be enough testing capacity to aggressively test in advance people who aren’t yet sick but are at high risk from COVID-19, said Dr. Tina Tan, a professor of pediatrics with the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. That includes testing both workers and patients in nursing facilities; jailors and inmates in prisons; front-line workers like transit drivers, police and firefighters; the homeless; and people in black communities that have been hit hardest by the pandemic.
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Yahoo! News
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What are ‘COVID toes’ and why are dermatologists seeing an ‘epidemic’ of them in kids?
Characterized by a reddish-blue discoloration of the extremities, the condition is proving particularly prevalent among kids. Amy Paller, MD, chair of the Department of Dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine says that in the last few weeks, dermatologists nationwide have begun seeing an influx of the condition.
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The Wall Street Journal
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Sex in the Time of Coronavirus
“The decision to have sex is not very different from the decision you make to be in the same room or be closer than 6 feet with a person,” says Lauren Streicher, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “The risk is the same.”
