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Colors of COVID-19: Gifts and Grants Support Hair Network’s COVID-19 Prevention and Mitigation Campaign
When the world started to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year, there was little information on the racial differences of incidence and mortality. But health equity experts like Dr. Stephen Thomas knew that this information was crucial to documenting and addressing potential racial ...View Article Details for Colors of COVID-19: Gifts and Grants Support Hair Network’s COVID-19 Prevention and Mitigation Campaign -
New Gymkana Program Endowment Memorializes Tom Cockley MA ’80
For many at the University of Maryland, Gymkana is not just a gymnastics troupe that showcases high-flying acrobatics and healthy, drug-free lifestyles, it is a second home. Tom Cockley, MA ’80, a former Gymkana assistant coach, helped make it so. Tom passed away on June 14, 2020, at age 69. In h...View Article Details for New Gymkana Program Endowment Memorializes Tom Cockley MA ’80 -
Study of Flu Transmission Provides More Evidence That Respiratory Viruses Spread via Air
A new publication in PLoS Pathogens by an international team of investigators shows that flu virus might spread via air rather than through contact and large droplet spray, as commonly thought. A large part of the evidence about how respiratory illnesses like COVID-19 are transmitted comes from rese...View Article Details for Study of Flu Transmission Provides More Evidence That Respiratory Viruses Spread via Air -
Increases in Asthma Hospitalizations in Maryland Linked To Climate Change and Earlier Spring Onset
Climate change affects the timing of spring and is leading to an increase in asthma hospitalizations , according to a new study led by Amir Sapkota of the University of Maryland School of Public Health. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), is the first to p...View Article Details for Increases in Asthma Hospitalizations in Maryland Linked To Climate Change and Earlier Spring Onset -
Study Finds Physical Activity Prevents Depression in Older Adults During COVID-19
Staying active can help older people prevent depression while following the COVID-19 social distancing guidelines, according to a new University of Maryland School of Public Health study published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. The study is the first to examine the association betw...View Article Details for Study Finds Physical Activity Prevents Depression in Older Adults During COVID-19 -
Different Viruses, Similar Outcomes: Tracing the Common Thread of Inequality Between Pandemics a Century Apart
Authorities shrugging off risk—or ordering everyone to mask up. The virus surging in locales that dropped their guards too soon. Death rates that cut along racial lines, impacting African Americans with particular ferocity.View Article Details for Different Viruses, Similar Outcomes: Tracing the Common Thread of Inequality Between Pandemics a Century Apart