Read article – Features information from Lisa Adams, MED ’90, associate dean for global health and professor of medicine, on how we need to be careful about making assumptions about symptoms that may be associated with the COVID-19 vaccine. The article summarizes Adams comments by saying, “Unlike the much more common COVID vaccine side effects — like fever, chills, and headache — there isn’t really great data about these unusual cases,… Information about things like vertigo and ear-ringing are still being collected on a mass scale and we still can’t say with certainty that these more unusual effects are causally tied to the vaccine.”

Read article – An article detailing the ongoing research by Dr. Paul Barr, Associate Professor at The Dartmouth Institute in the emerging arena of automated and curated recordings of physician-patient encounters.

Read article – Elijah Stommel, professor of neurology, is quoted in an article on Vermont’s efforts to restore its lakes and streams. Speaking about the risks posed by cyanobacteria, Stommel said: “If you get a bad enough bloom, [it] should aerosolize into the air around Lake Champlain as easily as it can into the air around Nantucket.”

Read article – An article reporting on research at the MDI Biological Laboratory notes that students working with scientists from Maine and New Hampshire have analyzed more than 1,500 well water samples in collaboration with the Trace Element Analysis Core at Dartmouth. The public health threat posed by arsenic and other harmful well water contaminants has been a focus of education and research at MDI Biological Laboratory since a 2014 “arsenic summit” held in collaboration with Dartmouth to address approaches to limiting arsenic exposure. The summit led to an educational program titled “All About Arsenic,” which in turn gave rise to a federally funded SEPA (Science Education Partnership Award) program and a new CDC grant.

Read article – An interview with Michael Calderwood, associate professor of medicine, to help explain the science around COVID-19 vaccines. Calderwood addresses a wide range of questions on vaccine efficacy, COVID protocols, and concerns about virus variants. “To get out of this, a lot of us are going to need to step forward and be vaccinated when our time comes,” Calderwood said. (Picked up by Yahoo! News.)

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Daniel Lucey ’77, Geisel ‘82, clinical professor of medicine, in an article on the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19. “The most likely [pathway] is that a bat infected some animal species—maybe more than one species—and that species infected humans, and then it took off and, unfortunately, tragically, it was much more contagious than SARS 1 or MERS.”

Read article – Daniel Lucey ’77, Geisel ‘82, clinical professor of medicine, is referenced in an article on the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19. Lucey was not part of the WHO team that visited China, but is noted for having been involved in researching several outbreaks, including the first two coronavirus epidemics: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).

Read article – Mary P. McGowan, assistant professor of medicine and co-director of the Lipid Clinic at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, is one of two interviewees for this Q&A about COVID-19 in patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH).

Read article – In this Q&A on the coronavirus vaccine, Lisa Adams, MED ’90, associate dean for global health and professor of medicine, comments on how the body may react to the vaccine, including how a young person may have more intense side effects than an older person. She advises, “Don’t plan anything major for the day.”

Read article – Continued coverage of former Geisel School of Medicine faculty member Jason McLellan and the role his research played in the development of a new COVID-19 vaccine.