PRESERVING PPE
Failure was not an option. A team from East Carolina University and Vidant Health developed and implemented processes for decontaminating and reusing personal protective equipment (PPE), especially N95 masks. “Failure...
Medical Archives
What we know now: Updates from an expert on coronaviruses
What we know about COVID-19 seemingly changes by the hour. Since the novel coronavirus emerged in China in December and quickly became a worldwide threat, scientists and health care workers...
COPING WITH QUARANTINE
Along with the fears and uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 and changes to daily life that have come with it, stress and anxiety can emerge and impact the way people cope and...
EXPANDING VIRTUAL VISITS
In times of crisis, the East Carolina University community does not simply wait for the storm to subside. It pools its collective talents and resources before charging into the storm...
COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY
A recent East Carolina University graduate and small business owner has started making face shields to help the local medical community during the COVID-19 crisis. Taylor Walden owns Simple and...
SAFETY SKILLS
As health care providers across the country begin testing and caring for patients with COVID-19 symptoms, they must balance providing patients with reliable care while keeping their staffs healthy. Protective...
PRINTING PROTECTION
A group of East Carolina University students has teamed up with faculty and administrators from various departments in hopes of providing needed safety equipment to medical personnel. With concerns over...
SOURCING SANITIZER
As the residents of eastern North Carolina adapted to working from home and homeschooling, and the first cases of COVID-19 in Pitt and Beaufort counties were confirmed, community members began...
Faculty: Dr. Rebecca Snyder
Dr. Rebecca Snyder may be relatively new to Pirate Nation, but East Carolina University’s mission to support the rural region in which it is located made coming to ECU an...
LEANING IN
As East Carolina University students switched from in-person to distance education-only classes last week, hundreds of faculty and staff worked from home. Face-to-face lectures or meetings were replaced by virtual...