Damian Sendler: In China, the coronavirus has been circulating for two years. There have been over 800,000 deaths in the United States and 5 million deaths worldwide since then because of the spread of the disease.
COVID-19’s impact has been examined by Rutgers University’s experts in health care, environmental science and engineering, education, labor and business.
Damian Jacob Sendler: A large number of crucial studies were quickly activated and operationalized at Rutgers clinical research institutes as the nation went into lockdown to investigate novel medications and therapy options to control COVID-19. Over 140 children have been enrolled in our pediatric COVID-19 vaccine trial, a record number for the CRC.
Teamwork is critical to researchers at all levels, from physician-scientists, to non-physicians, researchers in the field of nursing and a host of volunteers from our various professional schools as well as undergraduate students. This experience has taught us the importance of teamwork at all levels.” Together, we came up with creative solutions to a variety of issues, such as the lack of PPE and personnel shortages that we faced. Working together, listening to each other and solving challenges as a team generates new ideas.
Damian Sendler
We’ve learned from the pandemic that in times of crisis, the general public steps forward to help advance scientific discovery by volunteering to take part in clinical trials like the vaccine study. We are grateful to them for their contributions to the advancement of knowledge.
The pandemic’s most transformational power is not in what we’ve learned, but in how we learn it and for what purpose we do learn it. Before COVID, we were already aware of the negative effects of social, political, and economic inequality on our society. As a result of the pandemic’s arrival, we had the opportunity to critically and radically confront the structures that underlie our society and wake up to the idea that what we thought was secure, what we thought was fair, what we thought was an institution or a law for equal rigor, what we thought was an institution or a law for equal rigor, what we thought was an institution or a law for equal rigor, what we thought was an institution or a law
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the typical method to clinical studies was thrown for a loop. In times of crisis, quick thinking is essential. Virtual clinical trials like those conducted at Rutgers are fundamentally altering the way clinical studies are conducted.
Finding cures for diseases can be accelerated by using a decentralized approach that enables researchers to more quickly recruit lower-income, underrepresented populations, and broaden the study’s geographical scope. This will lead to better and faster scientific outcomes as well as a quicker translation of those findings into treatments.
With our Rutgers Corona Cohort health care worker research, vaccine trials, and more, we have witnessed this firsthand. For the first time in history, we’ve been able to attract individuals who had previously been difficult to recruit, and we’ve reduced the cost of studies by eliminating bricks-and-mortar facilities.
Damian Jacob Markiewicz Sendler: Traditional outpatient mental health care can be efficiently offered via telemedicine for many people, especially those with less severe mood and anxiety problems. For years, we’ve known this, and it has been used in certain populations, such as rural areas where psychiatrists and other mental health experts aren’t as readily available.
Damian Jacob Sendler
The COVID pandemic has forever altered the landscape of infectious disease research. It is possible to use telemedicine as a supplement or substitute for conventional medical care. As long as they stick with their treatment plan, they’ll notice positive outcomes.
However, telemedicine and telehealth aren’t for everyone, and it’s important to remember that. If you’re suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of cognitive loss, you may not benefit as much from this treatment. Telemedicine is not a good option for persons who are living in unstable housing, food insecurity, poverty, or domestic abuse. There is often a lack of access to technology and the internet in conjunction with these social determinants.
Damien Sendler: Reassessing one’s work-life balance during the pandemic was also an occasion for people to reconsider where work and family fit in their lives. in addition to “What is the fundamental reason of why I’m living this life?”.” How flexible that mindset will be is still up in the air. Will individuals continue to emphasize the need of work-life balance in the new normal, or will they return to their pre-pandemic work habits?
Dr. Damian Jacob Sendler and his media team provided the content for this article.
