It’s no secret: Hospitals throughout the U.S. are facing a critical N95 respirator mask shortage. Instead of accepting this shortage as fact, UNMC and Nebraska Medicine experts teamed up to tackle the problem head on.

Psychiatrist Steven Wengel, MD, offers advice on how to cope with all the concerns around COVID-19, and how to help others who are feeling isolated.

In health care, in all our communities, we need you – now more than ever. I need you.

We have never faced a pandemic like this before, and we have never faced testing shortages like this before. This reality puts us all in an uncomfortable place. It means we need to work together with understanding, compassion and patience, so we can do the right thing for everyone.

This is an email from Nebraska Medicine critical care anesthesiologist Dan Johnson, MD, to his friends and family about the seriousness of COVID-19. It is shared with permission from Dr. Johnson.

Recently, the epidemiologic term “flattening the curve” has been widely cited in the media, including a recent article in the Omaha World-Herald. I want to tell you what this means and why it is critically important for the health of Nebraskans.

What we know about COVID-19 so far.

Nebraska Medicine/UNMC and our partners from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Nebraska National Guard, Governor Pete Ricketts, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), and many other local and state agencies joined together for a press conference explaining more about the arrival of rescued Americans from China.

If you have diabetes, there’s a good chance that heart disease may be in your future unless you take aggressive action to prevent it.

Nebraska Medicine/UNMC infectious diseases specialist Mark Rupp, MD, provides an update on what we know about the novel coronavirus which originated in Wuhan, China.