Updated Coronavirus, COVID-19 Information

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The University of Mississippi Medical Center is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by taking aggressive steps to increase testing, promote vaccination, offer the best available treatments and conduct research that will serve patients and families now and in the years to come.

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Registered nurse Amy Wigglesworth prepares to enter data gathered at the Clinical Research Trials Unit. She is working on the RECOVER study, a national effort to understand Long COVID.

RECOVER explores Long COVID

Monday, February 28, 2022

UMMC has joined a nationwide study on the post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2, also known as Long COVID. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, RECOVER aims to understand why millions of people have lingering symptoms post-infection and how to treat and prevent Long COVID.

Research shows that protection against hospitalization for COVID-19 is passed from pregnant mothers to their babies. This makes the babies of mothers vaccinated during pregnancy less likely to need hospitalization for the illness.

COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy protects babies, research finds

Thursday, February 17, 2022

A study involving experts from the University of Mississippi Medical Center shows infants younger than 6 months are 61 percent less likely to need hospitalization for COVID-19 if their mothers were vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2 virus during pregnancy.