As the Pandemic Recedes, COVID-19 Research Continues on Many Fronts
While COVID-19 community transmission, mortality, and hospitalization rates have come down across the country in recent months, the efforts to understand more about SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, continue at full speed. “The energy is still robust,”...
FREEDOM Trial Finds That High-Dose Anticoagulation Can Improve Survival for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
An international trial led by Mount Sinai found that high-dose anticoagulation can reduce deaths by 30 percent and intubations by 25 percent in hospitalized COVID-19 patients who are not critically ill, when compared to the standard treatment, which is low-dose...
What You Need to Know About the Latest COVID-19 Variant
You may have noticed that more people you know have gotten COVID-19 recently. One reason is the virus that causes COVID-19 continues to evolve into variants that are more contagious. The latest one is known as XBB.1.5, and since early December it has become the...
COVID-19 Travel Tips for This Holiday Season
We are approaching the third holiday season during the COVID-19 pandemic, but this one is different from the others: Masking requirements and other social distancing guidelines are largely gone. So what should you do if you are concerned about COVID-19 possibly...
Updated COVID-19 Vaccines: What Are They and Do I Need One?
Over the years of the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease, has mutated many times. Each new version of the virus is called a variant or subvariant. The same COVID-19 vaccines that were made available since December 2020 have done a...
Mount Sinai Morningside Unveils Photo Installation Celebrating Staff Who Battled COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic threatened to overwhelm hospitals in the spring of 2020, photographer Claudia Paul was inspired to tell the stories of health care workers battling the emerging virus. Her photo series, “Faces of Resilience,” portraits of front-line health...
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