K-State medical director contributes to research behind updated CDC quarantine guidance
Monday, Jan. 11, 2021
MANHATTAN Kyle Goerl, the medical director of Kansas State University s Lafene Health Center, is part of a collaborative team that is providing research-based guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The team s latest research contributed to the updated quarantine guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In the publication, Goerl and collaborators describe findings among a sample of COVID-19-exposed collegiate athletes in 17 states from June to October 2020. Twenty-five percent of the athletes tested positive during quarantine and the positive test occurred an average of 3.8 days after their quarantine started.
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Replay Video UP NEXT The new, mutation-laden variant of the coronavirus that has been spreading rapidly in the United Kingdom may already be circulating in the United States and other countries, leading infectious-disease experts said Monday. There is no evidence that this variant causes more severe illness from covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. And scientists do not know with certainty whether this variant, officially known as B.1.1.7, is truly more transmissible. But it has the appearance of being so.
Charles Aubrey Dempsey Jr., a retired HPLC director from LSU Health Shreveport, passed away in his home on December 8, 2020. He was 68 years old.
Charles was preceded in death by his parents, Pauline Phillips Dempsey and Charles Aubrey Dempsey Sr. of Magnolia.
He is survived by his children, Robin Dempsey Dogan and husband Jerry of Oxford, MS, Charles Aubrey Dempsey III of Virginia Beach, VA; grandchildren, Liam Emmett, Norah Pauline and Lyndon Violet Dogan of Oxford, MS; and Sharon Thompson Farrar of Shreveport, his beloved friend of 48 years who assisted him nonstop in his final days.
Charles was born on November 17, 1952 to Pauline and Charles Dempsey in Magnolia. He graduated from Captain Shreve High School in 1971, and Louisiana State University Shreveport in 1976. He was employed at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport for 34 years and retired as the director of HPLC in the Pharmacology department.