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To accommodate and comply with social distancing guidelines and prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University class of 2020 cancelled its traditional Match Day celebration and replaced it with a Facebook Live Match Day event so its fourth-year students could share and celebrate their residency match assignments in real time
With no drugs or vaccines yet approved for COVID-19 and the number of U.S. cases increasing by the thousands every day, doctors are looking to revive a century-old therapy for infectious diseases: transfusing antibodies from the blood of recovered patients into people who are seriously ill.
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Penn Medicine is joining health systems throughout the region and the U.S. in following the South Korean model and setting up drive-through testing sites.
A Rutgers research team has completed the first evaluation of a new rapid COVID-19 test given emergency approval by the FDA.