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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TODAY
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As US surpasses 9 million coronavirus cases, cities enact new restrictions
[VIDEO – with Khalilah Gates, MD] For the second straight day, the U.S. set a new record for daily coronavirus cases, with more than 90,000 recorded on Thursday. The dramatic increase has led to a growing number of states putting tough new restrictions in place. NBC’s Kathy Park reports for TODAY from Chicago, where rules to curb the crisis are going into effect.
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Chicago Tribune
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Antibody drug tested in Cook County may be helpful to some COVID-19 patients, results show
A new antibody-based drug shows promise in treating outpatients who have mild to severe COVID-19, according to initial results of research conducted in part at Cook County Health and Northwestern University.
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Chicago Tribune
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Dr. Ngozi Ezike’s emotional moment shows health care workers feel COVID-19 fatigue too. ‘We feel trapped in many ways.’
Dr. Seth Trueger is tired of the pandemic. He misses his regular breakfast restaurant, which he now passes without stopping because of the risk of eating indoors. He misses his beard, which is now shaved because he wears masks every day. And he misses the old version of his job, when he didn’t have to calculate the risk of possible death with every action.Trueger is an emergency room doctor at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he has been on the front lines of COVID-19 since it was declared a pandemic in March.
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The Washington Post
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‘This is not a Miss America contest’: Sexism in science, research is challenged
“It’s baked into the system,” says Melissa Simon, vice chair for clinical research at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and founding director of the Center for Health Equity Transformation at Northwestern. Once flawed research is published, she says, it can have a chilling effect on other scientists and create distrust among patients who might turn down the opportunity to participate in research studies and clinical trials. “Clearly there are papers out there that potentially do harm to advancing science.”
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Chicago Tribune
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Confused about outdoor dining? Here’s a breakdown of the rules and safety guidelines.
“(Outdoor dining) is definitely safer than indoor dining,” wrote Robert Murphy, executive director of Northwestern University’s Institute for Global Health and a professor of infectious diseases at the Feinberg School of Medicine, in an email. “The issue is who you are dining with because you will be pretty close while you eat. The more air movement, the better.”
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U.S. News & World Report
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Tackling Dangerous Drug Shortages
Despite these setbacks, research continues on other potential COVID-19 therapies, like remdesivir, first formulated to treat Ebola, which was given emergency use authorization by the FDA for those with “severe COVID-19” in May. “We’re targeting a number of different proteins the virus needs for replication,” says Karla Satchell, a microbiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and a lead scientist for a team helping develop drugs to combat COVID-19. “We’re screening all of these drugs for their ability to stop the virus.”
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NBC Nightly News
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Coronavirus spreading rapidly in Midwest
[VIDEO – with Khalilah Gates, MD] A new CDC report finds it takes less than 15 minutes of close contact with people confirmed to have the virus over a 24-hour period to become infected.
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WGN 9
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Researchers investigating COVID-19 risk in LGBTQ community
Northwestern psychologist Dr. Brian Mustanski has been working with the LGBTQ community for his entire career. Now, he’s leading a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. “We’re now honing in on young gay and bisexual men and transgender women as a particular population to look at rates of infection with COVID,” he said.
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WTTW News
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COVID-19 ‘Long-Haulers’: Symptoms Persist for Some Patients
“You can imagine that those interfere with an individual’s ability to get back to their life and get back to work,” said Mercedes Carnethon, an epidemiologist and vice chair of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “The prolonged nature of these symptoms are gonna lead to prolonged determinants in an individual’s quality of life.”
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WBEZ
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Gov. JB Pritzker Blames Trump And Pandemic Fatigue For The State’s Recent Surge In Cases
Dr. Robert Murphy, a professor of medicine and infectious disease at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said lifting even more restrictions would be disastrous right now. “Everybody is tired of it,” Murphy said of the pandemic. “And so you have that pressure to just open up, and that’s just going to make everything worse. And from an epidemiological standpoint, I can’t support that. And I can’t recommend that. It’s a big mistake. Every time you do that, you pay with a life. You’re going to kill somebody.”
