Many faculty across the country have been scrambling to move their courses online in recent weeks, in light of the coronavirus pandemic. And it’s been uncharted territory for instructors who have never taught an online class.
There’s a pandemic, and everyone but a few select family members now want you at home to work.
Watch this video featuring dozens of CSU professors sending positive vibes to students as they prepare to take classes online.
The CSU community has committed itself to maintaining our students’ learning momentum through the end of this semester (and beyond).
The Colorado State University vet school delivered to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins a breathing machine that was “brand new, right out of the box,” professor Tim Hackett said. “We did not get a chance to use it.”
Given the difficulty older individuals have in controlling viral infection, the best option is for these individuals to avoid becoming infected by viruses in the first place.
Tom Gonzales has a bachelor's degree in environmental health from CSU and a master's in public health from the University of Northern Colorado. He is a registered environmental health specialist.
By Brian Geiss: As you age, the reduced “attention span” of your innate and adaptive immune responses make it harder for the body to respond to viral infection, giving the virus the upper hand.
La forma en la que envejece el sistema inmunitario es la razón por la que el virus se ceba especialmente en los mayores de 70 años. (Brian Geiss, associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and pathology, wrote this piece for The Conversation. Spanish translation published in the Spanish newspaper, El Pais)
"It will be such a boost to everyone around here to know that something that we had will be used to meet the needs of our neighboring health care system," Dr. Tim Hackett told the VIN News Service.