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COVID-19 and Public Health: Modeling, Silver Linings and ‘Colorado's Dr. Fauci’

When the pandemic struck last winter, it upended our lives in ways few could have imagined. Many of us work from home now, our kids go to school online, we wear masks and avoid our elderly or sick relatives for fear of passing along a potentially deadly illness. Meanwhile, lockdowns and isolation have spawned a mental health crisis that we are only now beginning to fully grasp.

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A Year Like No Other: Most-Read CU Anschutz Stories of 2020

It’s safe to say that 2020, rife with the disruptions, challenges and uncertainties that a global pandemic brings, has been a pivotal year. With SARS-CoV-2 vaccines rolling out, and the promise of a healthier and brighter 2021, science has vaulted in preeminence worldwide.

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Water May be an Effective Treatment for Metabolic Syndrome

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered that fructose stimulates the release of vasopressin, a hormone linked to obesity and diabetes. They also found that water can suppress the hormone and alleviate these conditions in mice.

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How Can Slumbering Squirrels Inform Astronauts on Long-term Journeys?

Chris Casey |

January 12, 2021

Researchers peered into the deepest of slumbers – the barely-breathing sleep of arctic ground squirrels – to better understand how the small mammals can emerge from an eight-month hibernation with a minimal loss of muscle mass.

Using metabolite profiles in the squirrels’ blood, a recently developed technology, the researchers showed that the animals have uniquely adapted to their extreme habitats by converting bodily waste products into essential nutrients. Despite spending the long winter curled into a ball and breathing only once per minute, the hardy rodents awaken in spring unscathed.

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CU Anschutz Experts Break COVID-19 Effects Down by Body Part

During the months-long pandemic, healthcare providers have seen a lot of things, often on levels they have never seen before. From brain fog and loss of smell to leg clots and purple toes, what began as a mysterious pulmonary disease has shown the world that its destructive powers far transcend the lungs.

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Debra Melani |

January 21, 2021

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Placental Function can Illuminate Future Disease in Adults and Children

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered a direct association between placental function in pregnant women and future metabolic disorders in children and adults, a finding that could lead to earlier intervention and diagnosis of disease.

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David Kelly |

January 21, 2021

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Pharmacy Students Step Up to Stamp Out COVID-19

The Experiential Office at the CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is a model for hands-on pharmacy programs across the nation. Known for providing clinical opportunities starting in the first year of pharmacy school, the program is used to activating students to respond to community needs. In a normal year, those requests are generally along the lines of providing wellness checks or administering flu vaccines, but this year the stakes are higher and the request much more urgent.

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Lori Westermann |

January 20, 2021

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Fear, Distrust Overshadow Vaccine Decision for Some Hard-Hit Communities

Black, Hispanic/Latinx and American Indian/Alaska Native people are more than two-and-a-half times as likely to die from COVID-19 than white people. Despite the unequal burden, early data suggest fewer people from some diverse communities are receiving the vaccine during the rollout.

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Shawna Matthews |

January 19, 2021

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Study Finds Real Life Makes Following Doctor’s Orders Difficult to Manage Chronic Disease

AURORA, Colo. (Jan. 19, 2021) - Many patients with chronic disease may intend to follow their doctor’s orders to diet, take their medicine and exercise, but a new study finds that everyday life often gets in the way. When that happens, the study found patients can become stressed and overwhelmed and might lie about dosing or even create their own remedies.

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January 19, 2021

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CU Anschutz COVIDome Project Aimed at Speeding Lifesaving Treatment

Last spring, as healthcare providers and scientists around the world scrambled to treat a surge of patients infected with a virus that experts knew little about, one thing quickly became clear: SARS-CoV-2 strikes people differently.

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Debra Melani |

January 18, 2021

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Lyft and Uber want to take you to your vaccination appointment

NBC News

January 21, 2021

“We cannot leave any part of society behind,” Richard Zane, M.D., professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told NBC News in a phone call. Zane is helping stand up vaccination rollouts across the state, from clinics and drive-throughs to mass vaccination centers and “pop-up” clinics. His own facility is in talks with Lyft about the possibility of providing rides to some patients.

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A Blip, Not A Surge: How Colorado Dodged A Holiday Coronavirus Tsunami

Colorado Public Radio

January 21, 2021

“You’re asking the question I think scientists are going to spend the next decade trying to unpack,” said Elizabeth Carlton, an associate professor for the school at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and member of the Colorado COVID-19 Modeling Team that provides epidemiological modeling for the state.

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Colorado’s COVID-19 cases move in the right direction, but will hospitalizations follow?

The Denver Post

January 21, 2021

There are at least two possible explanations for what’s happening with hospitalizations, and we need a few more days of data to know which is right, said Beth Carlton, an associate professor of environmental and occupational health at the Colorado School of Public Health.

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Drool for school: Colorado schools add saliva testing to slow spread of coronavirus in the classroom

The Colorado Sun

January 21, 2021

“I think it’s one ingredient to be used in combination with other strategies,” said Dr. Glen Mays, chairman of the Department of Health Systems, Management and Policy in the Colorado School of Public Health. “It certainly could be helpful in helping to keep rates of transmission low overall.”

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COVID-19 and Public Health: Modeling, Silver Linings and ‘Colorado's Dr. Fauci’

A Year Like No Other: Most-Read CU Anschutz Stories of 2020

Water May be an Effective Treatment for Metabolic Syndrome

Story of the Week

How Can Slumbering Squirrels Inform Astronauts on Long-term Journeys?

Latest Stories

CU Anschutz Experts Break COVID-19 Effects Down by Body Part

Placental Function can Illuminate Future Disease in Adults and Children

Pharmacy Students Step Up to Stamp Out COVID-19

Fear, Distrust Overshadow Vaccine Decision for Some Hard-Hit Communities

Study Finds Real Life Makes Following Doctor’s Orders Difficult to Manage Chronic Disease

CU Anschutz COVIDome Project Aimed at Speeding Lifesaving Treatment

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