Department of Medicine

“Our study doesn’t answer the question of why football athletes tend to underestimate their risks of injury or concussion,” said Christine Baugh, an assistant professor of medicine at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

“That athletes underestimated their risk of concussion and injury in this study raises important ethical considerations,” wrote Christine Baugh, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and member of the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities. “What is the threshold for college athletes to be sufficiently informed of the risks and benefits of football to make decisions that align with their values and preferences?”

“Not to generalize, but in the communities where we were seeing this occurring — and not just the Latino community, but kind of the people of color overall — their job positions put them in places where they could not socially isolate,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of Infection Prevention for the University of Colorado hospital system [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Lung scarring, fatigue, chest and muscle pain and intermittent fever are among the long-term side effects that could be caused by COVID-19, particularly in seniors. That's according to Thomas Campbell, who specializes in internal medicine and infectious disease at University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine].