A quick history recap: ivermectin’s link to COVID-19 started in Australia – how’s that for local science having a global impact? – at Monash University, when a study in a petri dish showed high concentrations of the drug stopped the growth of the virus that causes COVID-19. It was a […]
Closure
Breakthrough COVID research. Vital health care for locals. And now it risks closure
When scientists from UCSF and the city’s Department of Public Health approached San Francisco’s Latino leaders in April 2020 about testing Mission District residents for COVID during the earliest weeks of the pandemic, Valerie Tulier-Laiwa was intrigued but skeptical. The proposal was to test every resident in a four-by-four block […]
Dentist: Closure of practices impacts patients’ oral health
JOHNSTON, R.I. (WPRI) ─ A Johnston dentist believes dentistry is an essential business, but argues that it hasn’t been treated as such throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Rupesh Udeshi, dentist and co-owner of Dental Associates of Rhode Island, said the months his practice was closed had a big impact on the […]