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Northwestern University medical students are orchestrating donations of N95 respirators, surgical masks, surgical gowns and gloves and distributing them to emergency medicine departments and intensive care units around Chicago.

Northwestern University medical students have organized a volunteer effort to help support health care workers, older community members at higher risk for COVID-19 and working parents.

Despite concern, there is no current evidence that hypertension medication causes a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 or worsens symptoms, according to an editorial published March 25.
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The entire federal government must use the same tactics to combat the COVID-19 outbreak, or our efforts will fail, said Northwestern University infectious disease expert Dr. Robert Murphy during a March 24 COVID-19 webinar.
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‘Politics overshadowed real economic concerns,’ says Northwestern finance professor
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Jiaxing Huang has received a RAPID grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new self-sanitizing medical face mask that deactivates viruses on contact.

Law professor offers pop-up course, ‘Law in the Time of Corona’

Northwestern Medicine infectious disease expert Dr. Robert Murphy will address how to most effectively blunt the potential impact of COVID-19 in an hourlong webinar Tuesday, March 24.
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As doctors and patients increasingly rely on virtual doctor visits to help mitigate the spread of coronavirus, a Northwestern Medicine primary care physician can speak about the potential increase in antibiotic over-prescription that could result from these visits.
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Using selfie video messages filmed in their workplaces, Northwestern Medicine doctors on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic urged everyone in the community to "take this seriously."
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