Eric Garcia has had quite the year after overcoming COVID-19 back in March of 2020. He used his experience as motivation to help others, joining the Regeneron clinical trial team through UI Health Care.
Expanded access to vaccines offer hope and promise for Iowans. Read more from Patricia Winokur, MD, Executive Dean, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and an infectious disease specialist at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics.
The UI Health Care Respiratory Illness Follow-Up Clinic provides expert pulmonology care and referrals to other specialists for long-term symptoms of COVID-19.
For two weeks in late August and early September 2020, Jaime Humes stayed isolated in a hospital room near her hometown of DeWitt, Iowa, diagnosed with COVID-19 and pneumonia and unable to see family or friends. The only human contact she had was with the members of her care team, who monitored her oxygen levels, administered medications, or changed her body position.
The Heart & Vascular Team at University of Iowa Health Care is the first in the state of Iowa to perform a procedure that uses sonic pressure waves to break up calcium build-up in heart arteries.
