How to support older relatives during the COVID-19 outbreak
Like many of us, Dr. Cathleen Colón-Emeric, chief of the Division of Geriatrics at the Duke School of Medicine, has older parents who live nearby. Here are some of her suggestions for navigating the new and urgent conversations and decisions facing many families, including her own.
Q: What conversations should we be having with our older relatives?
Parenting in a pandemic: Duke experts on helping your kids - and yourselves
When you finish reading this story, go take a walk. Clear your head. Log off of Twitter. Step away from pandemic news. It’ll be good for you.
That’s one tip from three Duke experts who spoke to media Tuesday about various ways panic affects our lives -- and what we can do to mitigate it.
Here are more highlights:
School of Medicine experts discuss Duke’s response to COVID-19
Watch a recorded webinar featuring Duke University School of Medicine experts discussing the public health impact of the corona virus and Duke’s research related to COVID-19 and infectious diseases.
What we've learned about coronavirus
Three Duke infectious disease experts talked with the media Tuesday to discuss the origins and spread of COVID-19 and the global and U.S. response. Duke plans a series of briefings on the way the novel coronavirus is affecting the world.
Below are highlights from the briefing:
On the Wuhan Meat Market at the Epicenter of the Outbreak
7 Duke Experts Answer the Most Pressing Coronavirus Questions This Week
Just six weeks ago, almost no one was talking about coronavirus. But by the third week of January, stories about a worrisome illness spreading in China had taken over news cycles across the world. At first, all anyone knew was that it was contagious, causing serious respiratory illness in some and potentially deadly.
Wuhan Coronavirus: scientists in Singapore culture virus from patient
This could be a game-changer in the fight against a deadly epidemic that has affected thousands
Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS), in close collaboration with clinicians and scientists from SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, Singapore General Hospital (SGH), National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and Ministry of Health (MOH), have successfully cultured the coronavirus from an infected patient’s clinical sample.
What is Coronavirus?
Duke experts offer a quick explainer and what we know about the new coronavirus in China
As worries escalate over a new coronavirus that recently emerged in China, questions are popping up about the illness it causes, which has sickened more than 6,000 people and has led to at least 132 deaths.*
The novel infection’s “ground zero” is the city of Wuhan, in Central China, but cases have been reported in other countries, including Japan, Thailand, Korea, and the U.S.