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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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A new potential drug target has been identified in SARS CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- by scientists who say multiple drugs will likely be needed to respond to the pandemic.

The Catholic Church’s response to COVID-19 includes canceling mass and limiting funerals to prevent the spread of the virus.
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Psychologist Dan P. McAdams, author of “The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning," on President Trump's behavior and response in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.
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