As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, Northwestern Medicine scientists continue to help advance the understanding of the disease and its impact, from investigating antibody protection against COVID-19 reinfection to elevating women in academic research and highlighting racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 hospital mortality in Illinois.
As the COVID-19 pandemic nears the two-year mark, Northwestern Medicine scientists continue to tackle every facet of the disease, from investigating coronavirus vaccines' potential for providing immunity against similar coronaviruses to developing novel rapid antigen-based tests and examining disparities in COVID-19 case and mortality rates in Chicago.