News from Duke

Faculty Experts on Why Masks Work

Video of Masking and Environmental Health

Aug 04, 2020

Provost's Office

Duke Students and Staff Have a Request: Wear a Mask!

Aug 04, 2020

Duke United

The Duke Compact: A Pledge to Keep Each Other Safe

Pledge articulates behavioral expectations for all students, faculty and staff

Aug 03, 2020

Update on COVID-19 Testing for Duke Student-Athletes

Duke University’s COVID-19 testing program has administered 700 tests to 309 student-athletes, coaches and staff in the first three weeks since student-athletes began returning to campus for voluntary practice.

Jul 31, 2020

Online K-12 Requires Creative Solutions, Resources, Patience

Duke faculty share insights during a media briefing on adapting to the pandemic

Jul 29, 2020

Coronavirus

Safeguarding Employee Health While Returning to Work

Video of Coronavirus Conversations: Return to Work – Protecting Workers’ Health During a Pandemic Employees planning a return to their workplaces face a series of obstacles thanks in part to failures by the federal government, three experts said recently during a panel discussion at Duke.

Jul 28, 2020

Message from President Price on Updated Reopening Plans

To the Duke Community, I am writing to provide an update on Duke’s plans for the Fall 2020 semester and to inform you of some important and necessary changes.

Jul 26, 2020

Duke Updates Reopening Plans

With COVID-19 numbers trending in wrong direction, Duke will reduce number of residential students in fall semester

Jul 26, 2020

Experts Urge Empathetic Approach to Convincing Mask Opponents

Duke faculty discuss effective public health messaging during the pandemic

Jul 22, 2020

Duke to Start Trial of Promising COVID Antibody Treatment

If treatment is effective, it would advance COVID care until vaccine is developed

Jul 22, 2020

News about Duke

How Screen Time May Be Contributing to Dry Eye During the Pandemic

Features comments by Dr. Preeya K. Gupta, a corneal specialist and ophthalmologist at Duke Health

Aug 04, 2020

Healthline

Sick, Hot American Summer

Quotes Marta Wosińska, deputy director at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy

Aug 04, 2020

POLITICO

4 Former FDA Commissioners: Blood Plasma Might Be the COVID-19 Treatment We Need

Commentary co-authored by Drs.

Aug 04, 2020

Washington Post

Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Interview with professor Ooi Eng Eong, deputy director of Duke-NUS’ Emerging Infectious Diseases program

Aug 04, 2020

Channel NewsAsia

‘We Are Being Gaslit’: College Football and COVID-19 Are Imperiling Athletes

Commentary co-authored by Nathan Kalman-Lamb, lecturing fellow in the Thompson Writing Program

Aug 04, 2020

The Guardian

We Have to Fix Things Massively and Quickly

Podcast interview with professor emeritus Blair Sheppard, special advisor to Duke Kunshan University

Aug 04, 2020

Literary Hub

Parents and the Pandemic: Coping With the Stress of COVID-19

Interview with Timothy Strauman, a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Aug 04, 2020

Spectrum News Central New York

Vietnam Miracle Escape From COVID May Be Down to ‘Natural Immunity’

Quotes professor Antonio Bertoletti of Duke-NUS’ Emerging Infectious Diseases program

Aug 04, 2020

Yahoo News, Daily Telegraph

Reporting on Local Health Systems

Webinar discussion with Susan Dentzer, a senior policy fellow at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy

Aug 03, 2020

Council on Foreign Relations

Duke to Start Trial of Promising COVID Treatment

Covers news that the Duke Human Vaccine Institute was given approval for a clinical trial (with video)

Aug 03, 2020

WRAL