COVID-19 Educational Resources

As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cancer.Net developed several resources for people with cancer, including its post “Coronavirus and COVID-19: What People With Cancer Need to Know,” written by Dr. Merry Jennifer Markham. After publishing this post on March 3, 2020, Dr. Markham reviewed and updated the post for 650 days straight to make sure people with cancer were receiving the most up-to-date and relevant information about COVID-19.

As cases of the omicron variant continue to surge, two federal agencies have approved booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-old children.  Sonja A. Rasmussen, M.D., a professor in the departments of pediatrics and epidemiology at the UF College of Medicine and the UF College of Public Health and…

Thousands of health care professionals and support staff have helped protect our communities in the wake of COVID-19. From long hours in the ICU to volunteer shifts at vaccination sites, these heroes have helped throughout the pandemic.

As COVID-19 claimed more and more lives around the globe, many people waited several months for a vaccine to be developed and deployed. However, several others were not as ready to be inoculated. As doses started arriving in places around the world, “vaccine hesitancy” followed in tow.

Despite so many waiting anxiously for the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines, many others are hesitant to get inoculated, even as more vaccines gain approval from the FDA and with increasing availability to the general public.

Before COVID-19, cancer patients were united by their fight against the disease, no matter the difference in type, location or stage. Today, they’re united by another battle; one outside of their diagnosis — the fight to stay alive while immunosuppressed during a global pandemic.

Stay-at-home restrictions are beginning to lift in several areas across the United States, but immunosuppressed cancer patients are still at high risk of falling seriously ill from the novel coronavirus COVID-19.

A new research program to understand the effect of COVID-19 on health care workers is soon to be underway at University of Florida Health and other sites across the country. A clinical trial to evaluate whether hydroxychloroquine can prevent COVID-19 infections is also being planned.

Cancer doesn’t stop — not even for the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19. The unknowns related to the virus are leaving people concerned, especially cancer patients who may have weakened immune systems as a result of cancer treatment and/or may be older.

About: The AACR Virtual Annual Meeting I will begin with an Opening Session in which AACR President Elaine R. Mardis will review the AACR’s accomplishments for the past year and Program Chair Antoni Ribas will review the meeting program. The virtual Meeting will feature a variety of sessions, which will run from 9 a.m.– 6 p.m. EDT…