Read article – Quotes Ellen Flaherty, assistant professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and director of the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging, about how isolation and disruption can make people stressed, making the elderly even more vulnerable to COVID-19. “Isolation leads to loneliness. Loneliness leads to depression. It absolutely puts them a greater risk,” said Flaherty.

Read article – As a guest on BBC World Service’ s Newshour, Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, discusses an online self-help toolkit he and his researcher partners developed to replicate training designed to help astronauts cope with confinement in small spaces for extended periods. (Buckey’s comments begin at approximately 14:10. The audio file must be downloaded to listen to the segment.)

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Ellen Flaherty, assistant professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and director of the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging, about how isolation and disruption can make people stressed, making the elderly even more vulnerable to COVID-19. “Isolation leads to loneliness. Loneliness leads to depression. It absolutely puts them a greater risk,” said Flaherty. (Picked up by The New York Times and many more.)

Read article – A roundup of news updates about the COVID-19 pandemic in Vermont, which quotes Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, about strategies he helped to develop to cope with isolation in outer space. The self-help tools for coping with separation are available online, and Buckey says that people can learn the skills needed to deal with isolation, whether stuck in outer space or at home. “And maybe we’re not in quite as an extreme an environment here on earth, but these relationships are the most important people in their lives,” Bucky said. “And so it’s important to be able to negotiate things, to work through conflicts while keeping those relationships intact.”

Read article – Quotes Stewart Tepper, professor of neurology, in an article about a new drug that may eliminate migraine pain and prevent the progression of migraine pain intensity.

Read article – Features an interview with Susan Fernyak ’84, MED ’92, the chief medical officer at the San Mateo Medical Center in California, who like many physicians is working to discover successful drugs to reduce a COVID-19 patient’s “viral load” while the body fights the virus off.

Read article – Quotes Judy Rees, associate professor of epidemiology and of community and family medicine, in a news brief about a COVID-19 survey she led with colleagues from Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire that examined isolation practices in households. The survey found that just half of the households questioned had been “completely symptom-free during the past four weeks” but that when a person does show symptoms, other family members usually do not isolate them. (Similar coverage in the Valley News and NHPR.)

Read article – Quotes Jamie Doss, Geisel ’21, in a feature story about how he and his spouse Jenna-Lee Doss, are preparing for their second child during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jenna-Lee and other expectant mothers in this time have to alter their birth and postpartum plans to adapt to social distancing measures.

Read article – Quotes Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, in a feature story about a self-help tool he and fellow researchers developed to battle emotional stress and stay sane while in confinement. The tools they developed are free and available to the public as millions of Americans are being asked to self-isolate and government-mandated stay-at-home orders take effect. (Picked up byMyCentralOregon.com. Similar coverage in Kaiser Health News.)

Read article – A blog post co-authored by Stephanie Tomlin, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice’s Data and Analytic Core; Jonathan Skinner, the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and professor of community family medicine; and James Weinstein, the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor Emeritus, in which they discuss a collaboration between Microsoft Healthcare NeXT and Dartmouth Atlas Project researchers aimed at measuring the risk of severe COVID-19 across regions of the U.S.