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Caring on the COVID-19 front lines: “I took a leave from my job to treat some of the sickest patients in an ICU”
If you could help those most critically ill with the novel coronavirus, would you? Employee and trained nurse Laura Gador jumped at the chance to volunteer at a hospital in Hamburg, Germany—and is sharing her hardships and triumphs, and what’s giving her strength.
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 a scientist working on a potential COVID-19 vaccine”: Meet a researcher who’s studying a promising candidate
Roland Zahn, Ph.D., a Janssen scientist and expert in viral vaccines, was at the front lines of research during the Ebola outbreak. Today he and his team are working at record speed to help deliver a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus.
“I was on the front lines of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan": A doctor shares his story
Dr. Dongchen Zhou was a practicing cardiologist in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, when he received a call to help volunteer at a hospital in Wuhan. In February 2020 he began to treat COVID-19 patients—and recounts for us what his journey was like.
Could the answer to preventing hospital-acquired pneumonia be as simple as better oral care? This nurse thinks so.
Some 157,000 patients are diagnosed with the condition each year. But trailblazing nurse Dian Baker has a straightforward yet innovative solution.
From actor to advocate: A new MTV star opens up about the TB epidemic
When Syed Raza Ahmed took a role playing a 20-something living with TB, he knew he had a responsibility to educate others and help reduce stigma. As his MTV show debuts, he sat down with us to reveal what he’s learned about the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
What do working dads really want? Johnson & Johnson and Working Mother worked together to find out
Johnson & Johnson, a 2019 Working Mother Best Company for Dads, supported just-released research on the office benefits fathers most wish they had. Can you guess what factor influences dads to be 20% more likely to take time off to be with their families?