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UMass Chan has changed its COVID-19 reporting requirements. Effective immediately, UMass Chan employees are no longer required to report positive COVID-19 test results to Employee Health Services. 

In a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine, UMass Chan researchers reported analyses from the National Institutes of Health RADx program showing a small percentage of people, largely women with autoimmune disorders, persistently test positive on rapid home antigen tests for COVID-19 despite concurrently testing negative on molecular PCR tests.  

UMass Chan Medical School researchers are taking lessons learned from a pilot study on at-home COVID-19 testing and telehealth and broadening their evaluation to a larger federal Home Test to Treat program.

With the holiday season upon us, many will be traveling and gathering with family, friends and colleagues, which, while festive, may increase the possibility of contracting COVID-19, the flu, RSV and other viruses or infectious diseases. Consider masking while on public transportation and in crowded areas.

Effective May 11, 2023, UMass Chan is updating its COVID-19 pandemic policies to better align with those from the state and federal government.

A multidisciplinary team of UMass Chan scientists has developed a technology for delivering siRNA molecules locally to lung tissue, providing the first evidence of a platform capable of delivering chemically modified siRNAs to the lungs nasally and achieving robust genetic silencing.

Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD, a world-renowned geneticist and expert in the fields of innate immunity and immunology, is the inaugural speaker for The Robert W. Finberg, MD, Memorial Lecture on Thursday, March 23.

Jeremy Luban, MD, discusses the latest SARS COV-2 variant of concern and the future of vaccines in the fight against COVID in a new Voices of UMass Chan podcast.

UMass Chan Medical School continues to strongly recommend vaccination and masks as the number of COVID-19 cases increases following the holiday season.

UMass Chan Medical School will evaluate the NIH’s new Home Test to Treat program that will provide free COVID-19 health services—at-home rapid tests, telehealth sessions and at-home treatments—in selected communities across the country.