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What does social distancing mean?

UCI Health — March 23, 2020

Some less-than-welcome words and phrases have been added recently to our vocabularies: COVID-19, N95 masks, index case and community spread. Now, of course, there is social distancing. But with the rules changing rapidly on which behaviors will keep us safe from the novel coronavirus, many people are confused about exactly…

UCI Health launches therapeutic clinical trial for COVID-19

UCI Health — March 22, 2020

UCI Health clinicians have launched a clinical trial to test the efficacy of the antiviral drug remdesivir as a potential therapy for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that has reached pandemic levels across the globe. There are no specific therapeutics approved by the Food and Drug…

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