COVID-19

Stanford Medicine COVID-19

q&a

It’s time to get a flu shot. In a Q&A, Shanthi Kappagoda, MD, clinical associate professor of infectious diseases, explains why it’s especially important to be vaccinated this year.

• What are COVID-19 symptoms?
• What do I do if I feel sick?
• When should I get tested?
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention protocols can be found here.

• Research at Stanford Medicine
• Stanford University Health Alerts
• Stanford Health Care
• Stanford Children’s Health
• COVID-19 treatment and vaccine tracker
• Stanford lab testing statistics

What’s the status of the Pandemic?

Data come from European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for international case data and The New York Times for domestic US case data, sourced from Tableau Coronavirus data hub.
Data captures case numbers for every day from December 31, 2019 to present. Dashboards refreshed daily by 2 p.m. PT.
Data displayed may not always match reports from government agency sources as their numbers can change due to retroactive updates and reclassification of cases.

research

About 9% of people nationwide have been infected with the coronavirus, according to a new study led by Stanofrd Medicine investigators. 

stanford medicine magazine

In the eye of the pandemic, viral disease expert Bonnie Maldonado still has hope.

testing

Vera was designed as an expanded testing platform that’s nationally scalable, rapidly deployable and more affordable than other current options.

Palliative care physician Winnie Teuteberg discusses advance planning conversations and how COVID-19 has impacted these talks. 

expert opinion

Despite compelling evidence that suggests masks can effectively limit the spread of COVID-19, mask mandates across the country remain inconsistent. Dean Lloyd Minor discusses three lessons we can take from the smoking bans of the early 2000s.

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