Obesity May Impact Mortality in COVID-19 Patients
Reports coming in from COVID-19 patients in Italy and China, as well as data from the H1N1 influenza pandemic, suggest that obesity is likely a pre-existing condition that can exacerbate COVID-19...
Archives
Browse past GW Today articles in our archives.
President LeBlanc Answers Questions on COVID-19 Response, Contingency Planning
By Kristen Mitchell
George Washington University President Thomas LeBlanc expressed his gratitude to GW’s staff for their ability to adapt quickly and take on new and expanded roles amid...
Virtual Student Resources to Get Ready for Finals
As George Washington University students are preparing for final exams in a virtual learning environment, GW Today put together a guide to manage stress and tackle academics.
Students can...
GW Recognizes Federal Workers for Exceptional Contributions to Public Service
The government employees behind creating the most accurate clock in the world, developing ways to see crime scene evidence invisible to the human eye, finding new ways to track influenza around...
Virtual Town Hall Examines Anti-Asian Racism
By B.L. Wilson
Asian Americans have been spat on, verbally assaulted and physically attacked in more than a thousand race-related incidents in the United States as a result of fear evoked...
Funding and Other Prizes Awarded to Student Startups
By Tatyana Hopkins
In the United States, more than 13 million units, or roughly 13 million pints, of blood are needed each year to treat conditions like cancer, traumatic injuries and...
COVID-19 ‘Played Out Exactly as We Predicted’
By Ruth Steinhardt
They weren’t certain it would be a coronavirus. But when Mark Olshaker and his co-author Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and...