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
YNHHS leadership discusses COVID-19 case uptick and vaccine prospects

As statewide COVID-19 cases continue to rise, the Yale New Haven Health System has seen increased coronavirus-related hospitalizations, reiterating the importance of adherence to public […]

October 29, 2020

BEATRIZ HORTA, SYDNEY GRAY, MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO & RAZEL SUANSING
Gov. Lamont appoints Yale experts to COVID-19 vaccine advisory group

Gov. Ned Lamont appointed five Yale experts to his COVID-19 vaccine advisory group, which he announced on Oct. 9. All of them will work with […]

October 29, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
YNHH’s multidisciplinary post-COVID-19 recovery program helps patients with persistent symptoms

Just because someone does not require hospitalization when they catch COVID-19 does not mean the virus cannot bring severe difficulties, even months after they first […]

October 28, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO & MADISON HAHAMY
Yale faculty and staff are group with second-highest number of positive COVID-19 tests

Yale faculty and staff constitute the second-largest group of coronavirus cases at the University — even though not all are required to participate in regular testing.  […]

October 23, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
YNHH opens neuroCOVID clinic to treat long-term neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19

For some COVID-19 patients, recovery does not mean the end of their suffering. Effects from the illness could linger in the brain and manifest through […]

October 22, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
YNHH uses portable MRI to diagnose brain abnormalities in critically ill patients

A new portable magnetic resonance imaging device — developed by Hyperfine, a biotech company co-founded by Yale alumnus Jonathan Rothberg GRD ’91 — is being […]

October 15, 2020

TALAT AMAN & MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Baby abandoned in dumpster rushed to hospital with severe burns, perpetrator faces charges

On Monday, Perry Dennis — a maintenance worker and resident of the Presidential Gardens apartment complex — found an infant in a dumpster outside of […]

October 15, 2020

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SYDNEY GRAY, BEATRIZ HORTA & MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Yale experts discuss President Trump’s COVID-19 infection, implications for his presidency

After President Trump disclosed that he and the first lady of the United States tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday, Oct. 2, physicians, scientists […]

October 12, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Akiko Iwasaki and Gregg Gonsalves named among “50 experts to trust in a pandemic”

Yale Professor of Immunology Akiko Iwasaki and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Gregg Gonsalves ’11 GRD ’17 were named on the “50 experts to trust in […]

October 1, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, Good Life Center co-launch wellness workshops

Yale’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the Good Life Center co-launched an online wellness workshop series designed to help student-athletes safeguard their mental health and navigate […]

September 29, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Webcast series wraps up commemoration of 150th anniversary of women at Yale

This weekend, a historic series of webcasts concluded the yearlong 50WomenAtYale150 initiative, a program launched to celebrate 150 years since women were first admitted into […]

September 28, 2020