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One of the enduring mysteries of COVID-19 is why it makes some people deathly sick but gives others only mild symptoms or none at all. We know that age matters, as do race; gender; and pre-existing medical conditions like high blood pressure, heart problems, and obesity. We also know that most people who succumb to the disease die because they develop severe pneumonia, also known as acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS.  What we still don’t know, however, is what tips one COVID-19 victim toward ARDS but not another. Early in the pandemic, doctors noticed that, compared to forms of ...

Special to The Alliance Review Minerva First Christian Church has celebrated 55 young men as Eagle Scouts over the 83 years it has sponsored a troop. The year 2021 has been much different. The church’s Boy Scout Troop 150 this year has celebrated four Eagle Scouts. It is the most to receive the distinction in one year since the troop’s beginnings in 1938. “This is a remarkable achievement in a normal time, but with a year of COVID restrictions, it lifted the troop to a higher level of difficulty to complete all of the rank requirements and complete the Eagle Scout Service Project,” Sc...

February 15, 2021 by Julie Parry In March of 2020, Shelli Farhadian, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and neurology, began to see parallels in her pre-pandemic research on neurologic effects in patients with HIV infection and the possibility of neurologic effects on patients with SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19. “There was some literature out there that suggested that coronaviruses could have an effect on the brain. So, knowing that that was a potential possibility, even before we had our first case at Yale New Haven Hospital, I worked with other people to set up a pro...