COVID-19

Chancellor’s all-campus forum set for Oct. 6

Hear from Ken Bayles, PhD, UNMC’s new vice chancellor for research, and listen on other topics.

Sep 28, 2022

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, Ken Bayles, PhD, UNMC’s new vice chancellor for research, and Jane Meza, PhD, interim executive director for health security for UNMC

UNMC develops revolutionary patient care system

The ISTARI device, marketed as the CareCube, is a modular, disposable isolation system.

Sep 27, 2022

A flight crew preps the ISTARI (Isolation System for Treatment and Agile Response for high-risk Infections) prototype for loading.

Flu, COVID booster clinics start Wednesday

The Nebraska Medicine clinics are available to UNMC employees and students.

Sep 27, 2022

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, received his flu shot last Wednesday.

Mask guidance changing, still required in patient care areas

The policy change, effective immediately, is in response to weeks of lower COVID-19 risk levels.

Sep 25, 2022

Global Center for Health Security launches The Transmission

The weekly newsletter will focus on news and data on emerging infectious diseases and critical global health security topics.

Sep 22, 2022

Claudinne Miller, a former defense intelligence analyst, will produce The Transmission newsletter for the UNMC Global Center for Health Security.

From social media: Limited use of Paxlovid

The UNMC Global Center for Health Security keeps the community updated on the latest with COVID-19.

Sep 19, 2022

UNMC called nation’s top biocontainment resource

The U.S. Air Force surgeon general and team members tour UNMC.

Sep 12, 2022

At right, Lieutenant General Robert Miller, MD, surgeon general of the U.S. Air Force, listens to UNMC's James Lawler, MD, during a tour of the Davis Global Center and iEXCEL program.

UNMC study gauges health disparities in the pandemic

The work by UNMC’s Center for Reducing Health Disparities has resulted in at least 10 peer-reviewed publications.

Sep 11, 2022

Dejun Su, PhD, director of the UNMC Center for Reducing Health Disparities

Recruiting from a position of strength

The Sept. 6 all-campus forum addresses leadership changes.

Sep 8, 2022

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, and Jane Meza, PhD, interim executive director for health security for UNMC

Updated COVID boosters now available

Nebraska Medicine will offer the updated booster as soon as supply is available.

Sep 5, 2022