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Study uncovers two phases of infection in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia
BOSTON - What does SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, do once it enters a person s airways, and how does infection in lung cells affect patients immune responses? New research led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and published in Nature Communications provides insights that could help improve treatment strategies for infected patients.
To analyze SARS-CoV-2 at the tissue level, the scientists examined autopsied material from 24 patients who succumbed to COVID-19. We used a method called RNA in situ hybridization to visualize the actual SARS-CoV-2 virus in human lung specimens. This assay is now a clinical test being used at MGH to understand what tissues can be infected by the virus, explains co-author David T. Ting, MD, associate clinical director for Innovation at the Mass General Cancer Center and an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Paul Farmer, cofounder of Partners in Health, wins $1 million Berggruen Prize
Farmer chairs the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Womenâs Hospital.
By Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent,Updated December 16, 2020, 10:22 a.m.
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Dr. Paul Farmer sat by the Tengeh Town Bridge during a visit to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 2015.Jon Lascher/Jon Lascher / PIH
Dr. Paul Farmer, the cofounder of Partners in Health and longtime advocate for access to quality health care in some of the worldâs most impoverished countries, has won the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, the Berggruen Institute announced.