Maria Fernanda Pacheco
Staff Reporter
@mariafspacheco | maria.pacheco@yale.edu
Maria Fernanda Pacheco is a staff reporter for the Science & Technology desk of the Yale Daily News. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she is a sophomore in Grace Hopper College majoring in Neuroscience and participating in the Global Health Studies program.
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MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO & VERONICA LEE
After years in the making, New Haven Primary Care Consortium opens at 150 Sargent Drive

Born out of a collaboration between Yale New Haven Hospital, the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center and Fair Haven Community Health Care, the New Haven Primary […]

December 2, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Slowing down and starting up: Varun Kumar ’24 interns with Pine Park Health and relishes life at a slower pace

“Why do people postpone what they want to do to a later point? How do you know you will live that long?” Varun Kumar ’24 […]

December 1, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Yale New Haven Health’s mammography van makes state-of-the-art breast screening more accessible

Since 1987, Yale New Haven Health has dispatched mammography vans — vehicles that provide breast screening services — in local communities to address accessibility barriers […]

November 30, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
‘Our capacity is being stretched’: YNHHS continues to see rising COVID-19 hospitalizations

Health care systems across the country have seen COVID-19 hospitalizations multiply over the last couple of weeks, sounding the alarm that the pandemic might get […]

November 19, 2020

MADISON HAHAMY & MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Yale not among schools considering SalivaDirect, which it developed, for COVID testing

SalivaDirect –– a saliva-based COVID test that was developed at Yale –– is being explored as a testing tool by schools across the United States. […]

November 18, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO & AMRE PROMAN
‘It’s a source of comfort’: Off-campus students discuss COVID-19 testing

For most of the semester, off-campus students had the highest proportion of coronavirus cases among groups within the Yale community, according to the University’s COVID-19 […]

November 13, 2020

BEATRIZ HORTA & MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Pfizer vaccine, which early data found to be 90 percent effective, enrolled patients in Yale trials

On Monday, Nov. 9, Pfizer and BioNTech — the pharmaceutical companies currently leading a phase 3 coronavirus vaccine trial, in which efficacy and safety tests […]

November 13, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
As flu season approaches, YNHHS braces for possible “twindemic”

In the wake of recent surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations, the Yale New Haven Health System is preparing for a potential overlap between the ongoing coronavirus […]

November 8, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Ameeliorating: Breaking Down Barriers in Prison Communication

“This year … I lost my job, started chemo … and you guys have helped me still be able to show my husband that I […]

November 5, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
New organ selection system at YNHH yields five-fold increase in heart transplants

For patients with end-stage heart failure, heart transplants are often the only procedure that can save them from a fatal outcome. But finding an organ […]

November 3, 2020

SYDNEY GRAY & MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Yale professors weigh in on COVID-19 stakes in election

November 3, 2020