VideoApr | 24 | 2020
Members of the Chelsea High School Honor Society offer heartfelt messages of appreciation for Massachusetts General Hospital staff in this special video. The city of Chelsea has been especially hard-hit during the COVID-19 crisis. In response, members of the Center for Community Health Improvement and Center for Diversity and Inclusion and other Mass General staff are working closely with city leaders and advocates to support the response efforts, including providing health care services and distributing much-needed food and quarantine kits.
Members of the Chelsea High School Honor Society recently offered a bit of thanks on video.
Researchers found that a person with a diagnosis of Down syndrome and COVID-19 pneumonia had six times the odds of having a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) status ordered at hospital admission.
Aram J. Krauson, PhD, of the Department of Pathology at Mass General, is the first author and James Stone, MD, PhD, is the senior author of a new study in NPJ Vaccines, Duration of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Persistence and Factors Associated with Cardiac Involvement in Recently Vaccinated Patients.
Treatment improved blood oxygen levels and lowered the risk of long-term sensory and motor neurologic symptoms.
Results indicate a link between reduced mobility during the pandemic and greater risk for depressive symptoms.
For lung and heart transplant recipients, vaccine doses beyond the third dose are likely important for maintaining immunity.
Stephanie Santoro, MD, was the lead author of a recent article in the Journal of Pediatrics, titled Health Surveillance in a Down Syndrome Specialty Clinic: Implementation of Electronic Health Record Integrations During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
