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coronavirus

First-year medical student Emily Tom – a member of the volunteer coalition organized by first-year medical student Austin Franklin – walks a UCI Medical Center staff member’s dog.

Freeing up front-line physicians

First-year medical students form volunteer coalition to babysit, shop and run errands for UCI healthcare workers

coronavirus (pictured)

UCI launches comprehensive COVID-19 resource site

oc-covid19.org to engage community with informative, helpful content

UCI faculty create curricula for kids worldwide confined by coronavirus

U.N.-sponsored Earth School will help children learn about environment

Linh Tran, a 14-year respiratory care practitioner for UCI Health,looks through a window at UCI Douglas Hospital.

The human touch

UCI Health respiratory therapists are unsung heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic

Finding effective face mask fabric

UCI team aims to determine best do-it-yourself protective coverings, finding bandanas more or less useless

Healthcare workers greet an engine from the Anaheim Fire Department as it passes by UC Irvine Douglas Hospital during Tuesday’s parade of appreciation.

Mutual respect

Public safety agencies honor staff at UCI Medical Center with noon procession, but healthcare workers say the admiration goes both ways

UCI Podcast: Douglas Haynes discusses call for proposals on coronavirus and inclusivity

UCI’s Office of Inclusive Excellence, under its Confronting Extremism initiative, has issued a call for proposals to promote understanding about equity in the age of COVID-19. In addition to bringing to light some of the best qualities of ingenuity and empathy in individuals, the worldwide coronavirus crisis has exposed and exacerbated inequities in society. In […]

UCI team develops smartphone application for coronavirus contact tracing

Technology anonymously notifies users of potential exposure to COVID-19

UCI Podcast: UCI Health response to pandemic

The entire UCI community is confronting the coronavirus pandemic with unprecedented actions. UCI Health is on the front lines of the crisis response. In this episode of the UCI Podcast, two key members of the UCI Health staff – Linda Dickey, senior director of quality & patient safety, epidemiology & infection prevention; and Joe Brothman, […]

Coronavirus Twitter map developed at UCI displays social media reactions to COVID-19

To give the public a sense of how social media conversations about COVID-19 are happening in real time, UCI computer scientists have developed and launched a coronavirus Twitter map. The interactive resource visualizes the spatial and temporal distribution of tweets related to the pandemic, allowing users to view the growth and transformation of social media […]