CU Anschutz In The News

“That’s not a surprise – a ‘bad’ variant will send the curve back up. Immune escape and virulence are key,” wrote Dr. Jonathan Samet, dean of the Colorado School of Public Health and leader of the Colorado COVID-19 Modeling Group, in an email.

The uncertainty may lead people to see autoimmune disease as “an uncontrollable hobgoblin,” says Dr. Duane Pearson, a rheumatologist with UCHealth Rheumatology Clinic-Anschutz Medical Campus and Professor of Medicine with the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.