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In a well-resourced health system with adequate PPE (Personal Protection Equipment), health care worker risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection was more strongly driven by community exposure than patient exposure early in the pandemic, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

As the CDC begins to schedule the vaccine rollout, what can the public expect from a vaccination? Will we still have to be cautious about social contact and wear masks? How long before immunity kicks in? When will life return to normal? Northwestern Medicine infectious disease and critical care experts offer a vaccine playbook below.
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Northwestern University professors Daniel Brown, Michael Jewett and Thomas O’Halloran have been named 2020 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

A world leader in integrated circuits, Maxim Integrated has pledged a gift of $750,000 over 10 years to Northwestern's efforts to develop wireless, bio-integrated medical sensors.

With one major holiday down and more to come, Northwestern Medicine expert Dr. John Coleman says celebrate safely at home and don't inundate our already taxed health care systems with COVID cases.
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Using cesium lead bromide in the form of perovskite crystals, the research team found they were able to create highly efficient gamma ray detectors in both small, portable devices for field researchers and very large detectors.

Northwestern researchers wanted to understand how microbes sustain survival strategies in environments with too little iron to thrive — something that should stall the citric acid cycle.

People living behind bars are among those most vulnerable to COVID-19.
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A new COVID-19 global surveillance system developed at Northwestern can dynamically track not just where the virus is now, but where it is going, how fast it will arrive and whether that speed is accelerating.

National Academy of Medicine President Dr. Victor Dzau will discuss the equitable and global distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine during an hourlong virtual keynote address Dec. 4.
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