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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Northwestern-led researchers unveil data dashboard that aims to spot COVID-19 surges faster
“Basically the whole idea for this is like an early warning system. What we would hope to do with this is to … be able to see when things are starting to stoke and an outbreak is occurring,” said Lori Post, co-lead investigator and director of the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “However, it’s really a difficult time just because all U.S. states are just like out of control right now in America,” said Post, a professor of emergency medicine and medical social sciences.
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Chicago Tribune
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People wary of COVID-19 are avoiding the ER, and that has doctors worried. Here’s how Chicago-area hospitals keep patients safe.
“If there are no beds in the hospital, they (patients) are stuck in the waiting room or the emergency department sometimes for hours,” said Dr. Aaron Quarles, an emergency medicine physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Chicago Tribune
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Should pregnant women get a COVID-19 vaccine? What about women considering pregnancy? Guidance is hard to find because trials exclude pregnancy.
Pregnant women are commonly excluded from research, something that has frustrated Dr. Emily Miller for years. Miller is the assistant professor in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Northwestern Medicine’s Feinberg School of Medicine, where she has been closely following the lack of data on pregnant women and new vaccines.
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HealthDay
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COVID-19 Can Damage Lungs So Badly That ‘Only Hope’ is Transplant
According to study senior author Dr. Scott Budinger, professor and chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Northwestern, lungs attacked by COVID-19 “also showed striking similarities to the lungs of patients with a condition called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.” In that condition, lung tissue gets “thick and stiff, making it difficult for the body to take in oxygen,” Budinger said in the news release.
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The New York Times
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The Long Darkness Before Dawn
“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.”
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WBEZ
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Experts Say It’s Too Soon To Predict Illinois’ Post-Thanksgiving COVID-19 Surge
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.
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NBC Nightly News
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COVID hospitalizations hit record high on Thanksgiving
[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.
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WTTW News
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With Coronavirus Vaccines on The Way, Researchers Say It’s Time to Build Trust
“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.
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Fox News
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Coronavirus-infected nurse endures months-long coma, gets double lung transplant
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.”
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ABC News
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Color changes in fingers and toes may be 1st sign of Raynaud’s syndrome
“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.
