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Quiz: How much do you really know about COVID-19
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4 things COVID-19 taught an ER doctor about the power of resilience and hope
At the height of the outbreak in New York City, Dr. Ed Kuffner took a leave of absence from his job to volunteer at a Brooklyn hospital hard hit by the pandemic. He shares what the experience taught him about his own strengths—and ideas for coping during this unprecedented time.
Caring on the COVID-19 front lines: “I led the charge to help get personal protective gear to hospitals in Wuhan”
When Wang Donghua was tapped to hand-deliver personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies to healthcare facilities at the outset of the outbreak in Wuhan, he didn’t think twice. His wife happened to be one of those nurses on the front lines.
She’s a scientist with one of the world’s most important jobs: Creating a potential COVID-19 vaccine
Imagine being a researcher who is staring down not only a highly infectious virus, but one that’s caused the first global pandemic in more than 100 years. Meet Johnson & Johnson’s Hanneke Schuitemaker, Ph.D.
Caring on the COVID-19 front lines: “I rallied colleagues all over the world to help me make over 2,100 cloth masks”
When Melissa Surdez received an urgent call from her physician sister who was battling the pandemic on the front lines in New Jersey and facing a mask shortage, she promised to help—and tapped Johnson & Johnson’s thousands of employees to join her cause.
“I’m racing to screen thousands of molecules": These scientists are canvassing a vast library in search of a potential COVID-19 treatment
Johnson & Johnson has an expansive archive of existing drug compounds—and two researchers are leading the charge in combing through this molecular storehouse in pursuit of a possible breakthrough.
