COVID-19 coverage: Stories by the TMC News staff
Since February 2020, TMC News has been covering the novel coronavirus and its impact on people, practices and places in the Texas Medical Center, the Houston area and beyond. Check out our continuing update and read our collection of stories related to COVID-19.
September 15, 2020: “How are you doing emotionally?”
September 14, 2020: Faces in the Pandemic
September 11, 2020: Long-haulers and the lingering effects of COVID-19
September 2, 2020: Texas studying COVID-19’s uneven impact on communities of color
September 1, 2020: UTHealth is recruiting participants for national COVID-19 study on blood plasma therapy
August 28, 2020: Texas Ethics Consortium created amid COVID-19 pandemic by TMC experts
August 26, 2020: Don’t drink the hand sanitizer
August 25, 2020: Five questions during COVID-19 with Doug Lawson, Ph.D., of St. Luke’s Health
August 21, 2020: Making muscles with the most expensive drug in the world
August 19, 2020: The strange and vivid dreams of COVID-19
August 18, 2020: COVID-19 inspires masked-up art and whimsy around Houston
August 16, 2020: Despite hospital delays and fear of COVID-19, patients express gratitude to doctors and staff
August 14, 2020: Baylor College of Medicine to develop COVID-19 vaccine with Biological E. Limited
August 9, 2020: TMC Biodesign expands startup fellowship beyond medical devices and digital health
August 5: 2020: What health experts want you to know about the upcoming school year and COVID-19
August 4, 2020: Updated version of Rice University’s DIY ventilation unit gets FDA emergency use authorization
August 3, 2020: UT professor Kate Biberdorf, Ph.D., better known as Kate the Chemist, wows audiences to ignite interest in science
July 30, 2020: Five questions for Lex Frieden on the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
July 29, 2020: Oscar-nominated song lifts Texas Medical Center Orchestra onto global stage
July 28, 2020: Flu vaccine turns 75 in 2020
July 24, 2020: “When everything changes, everybody must change.”
July 23, 2020: Can the coronavirus spread through the air?
July 22, 2020: “There is some really nice simulation software that allows me to watch a student take care of a virtual patient.”
July 21, 2020: Fireflies help kindle new tests and treatments for COVID-19
July 20, 2020: Alumni of Houston nursing schools unite for #HoustonNursesTogether initiative
July 15, 2020: Fear of contracting COVID-19 will drive up deaths by other causes
July 14, 2020: FDA guidelines for building a COVID-19 vaccine
July 13, 2020: Rice University engineers design DIY ventilation unit
July 10, 2020: HIV and COVID-19: Two viruses collide
July 8, 2020: What makes a great mask? Designers with Houston ties weigh in.
July 7, 2020: Unpacking the mystery of MIS-C
July 6, 2020: “The lives of Texans are in our hands.”
July 2, 2020: Gilead sets price for COVID-19 drug remdesivir
July 1, 2020: TMC Pulse, the Texas Medical Center magazine, returns
June 29, 2020: Blood type may affect COVID-19 outcomes, study shows
June 26, 2020: Together Apart: A COVID-19 photo essay by Cody Duty
June 25, 2020: Telemedicine has arrived, thanks to COVID-19
June 24, 2020: How does COVID-19 affect pregnancy and postpartum care?
June 23, 2020: “Our rehabilitation programs can mitigate the negative effects of COVID-19.”
June 19, 2020: Racing to fund the cure and the care for Alzheimer’s disease
June 18, 2020: UH College of Medicine welcomes its inaugural class
June 17, 2020: “It’s really about living day to day and not forecasting something in the future you have no control over.”
June 15, 2020: Harris Health’s new CEO explains why COVID-19 stress isn’t new for the safety-net system
June 10, 2020: University of Houston debuts contact tracing course amid COVID-19 crisis
June 9, 2020: TMC scientists and health professionals hold walking vigil for black lives
June 8, 2020: “Trying to bond with your patients while wearing a mask, goggles and gloves … is very challenging.”
June 5, 2020: High school principal who conquered COVID-19 hosts 2020 graduation ceremony
June 1, 2020: “I’m pretty sure I contracted COVID from one of the patients.”
May 29, 2020: Texas Medical Center hospitals treating young people for inflammatory illness linked to COVID-19
May 27, 2020: “Even though there’s a terrible thing going on, I have enjoyed having this interaction with patients outside.”
May 26, 2020: UPDATE | COVID-19 crisis catalog: A glossary of terms
May 22: 2020: St. Dominic Village throws car parade for senior residents isolated during COVID-19 crisis
May 21, 2020: Helping the helpers: Two medical students launch HTX CovidSitters
May 19, 2020: Toddler undergoes heart transplant amid COVID-19 pandemic
May 15, 2020: Touch starvation is a consequence of COVID-19’s physical distancing
May 14, 2020: Taking your temperature with a thermal scanner, through COVID-19 and beyond
May 13, 2020: “That’s an interesting complication of this illness, that you can lose your sense of smell—and I did.”
May 12, 2020: Houston Methodist surgeon and nurse served aboard USNS Mercy in Los Angeles
May 8, 2020: Music unites a mother and newborn separated by COVID-19
May 5, 2020: “We’ve been able to allow family members to visit their dying loved one when hospitals couldn’t.”
May 4, 2020: “As a clinician, you feel the tremors of COVID. … You have to train yourself to do less and observe more.”
May 1, 2020: Newborn who conquered COVID-19 has illness described by UTHealth physicians
May 1, 2020: “A patient may not be a COVID-19 patient one day, but you come back the next day and the patient is a PUI. That was the problem.”
April 30, 2020: “We knew they needed us, so we thought, how can we let them know we’re here?”
April 29, 2020: CDC adds six new COVID-19 symptoms
April 28, 2020: “All you can give someone when you’re wearing that PPE is your eyes and your voice”
April 27, 2020: Soul Survivor: Wisdom from a TSU professor who went to work for 70 years—until COVID-19
April 24, 2020: Rice University ignites innovation in response to COVID-19 crisis
April 23, 2020: Recovered COVID-19 patient donates plasma to those still critically ill
April 21, 2020: COVID-19 has transformed the business of organ transplants
April 20, 2020: Harris Health System partners with University of Houston to fulfill face shield orders during COVID-19 crisis
April 17, 2020: TMC offers COVID-19 testing to employees and affiliated service providers
April 16, 2020: COVID-19 survivor Patsy Clapp overcame virus despite bone marrow cancer
April 14, 2020: Cleaning hospital linens during a global pandemic
April 13, 2020: Houston Community College and local nonprofit TX/RX Labs to manufacture face shields
April 13, 2020: Q&A with Houston Astros medical director David Lintner, M.D.
April 10, 2020: How COVID-19 is changing Passover, Easter and Ramadan observances
April 10, 2020: BCycle ridership is up, despite COVID-19
April 9, 2020: Detailed, graphic look at COVID-19 numbers in the Houston area clarifies local crisis
April 8, 2020: Businesses and individuals donate during PPE drive at Minute Maid Park
April 7, 2020: HCC Coleman College for Health Sciences to offer endoscopic technician certification
April 6, 2020: Go ahead and laugh, even during a pandemic
April 3, 2020: Businesses and individuals answer Harris Health System’s call for donations
April 3, 2020: Ice cream shop donates scoops to clinical teams in the Texas Medical Center
April 1, 2020: The TMC News staff continues to cover stories online while publication of TMC Pulse magazine is suspended
March 31, 2020: Houston Methodist performs the nation’s first plasma transfusion to treat COVID-19
March 30, 2020: The consequences of socially isolating seniors
March 26, 2020: COVID-19 myths and facts: Straight talk from UTHealth experts
March 25, 2020: COVID-19 crisis catalog: A glossary of terms
March 24, 2020: COVID-19 cuts Houston-area blood drives and donations
March 23, 2020: Coronavirus can live on surfaces for days
March 20, 2020: Match Day 2020 virtually perfect for TMC medical students headed to residencies
March 18, 2020: COVID-19 and Pregnancy: Experts urge caution with more unknowns than answers
March 17, 2020: What we still don’t know about COVID-19
March 13, 2020: Coronavirus scams: Consumers warned about fake treatments and cures
March 5, 2020: How scientists are responding to the novel coronavirus (reported in February)
