COVID-19

Boston researchers using COVID-19 patients’ DNA to unlock secrets about impact of virus
Boston researchers using COVID-19 patients’ DNA to unlock secrets about impact of virus
Biobanks could identify medically actionable findings relevant for COVID-19 clinical care

Hospital records hold valuable Covid-19 data. Making it usable is time-consuming work
To help scientists around the globe study Covid-19, researchers in Boston have shared genetic and other clinical data from thousands of patients with an international consortium. That data includes information from dozens of people with Covid-19, who had donated blood samples and opened up their medical records before the pandemic.

Genetic counselors and the fight for medicare recognition
Elizabeth Fieg, MS, LCGC discusses the importance and implication of the H.R. 3235-The Access to Genetic Counselor Service Act that would authorize and recognize appropriately credentialed genetic counselors as reimbursable providers under Medicare.
The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative, a global initiative to elucidate the role of host genetic factors in susceptibility and severity of the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic


Coronavirus, the answer may be in your genes

What do your genetics have to do with your chances of dying from Coronavirus?
Our genes might make some of us more susceptible to COVID-19—but which genes? Geneticists are sharing their vast DNA databases to find out.

Heroes on the front line: Dr. Robert Green
“..There are researchers – every single scientist is thinking ‘how can I contribute?’”

Coronavirus: Genes may explain why some face greater danger than others
“While healthy young people as a group are less likely to have severe symptoms with COVID, they have to understand that some of them will become very ill and will even die from this infection,” Dr. Robert Green said. “No one should assume youth makes them invulnerable.”