Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

SON Hosts Fall Vaccine Clinics for Georgetown Community

SON Hosts Fall Vaccine Clinics for Georgetown Community

By Andrew Bordea September 27, 2023

The Georgetown University School of Nursing (SON) will host free, walk-in influenza vaccination clinics Sept. 28 and Oct. 3 in the Leavey Center Ballroom. Georgetown will also offer flu and COVID-19...

The Five Stages of Being Sick at Georgetown

The Five Stages of Being Sick at Georgetown

By Abigail Weintz and Abigail Weintz October 6, 2018

If you haven’t spent these past weeks drowning in used tissues and Advil, this Hoya desperately wants to know your secret.  Yes! You heard that barely concealed coughing fit from the back of your crowded...

The Best Things About Flu Season

The Best Things About Flu Season

By Nick Silberman and Nick Silberman February 23, 2018

Although midterms are starting to pick up steam, it seems like "Flu Szn" is at its peak since almost everyone you know is suffering from a terrible strain. The flu is awful, but looking past those sleepless...

Michelle Xu

Let’s Opt Out of Influenza

By The Editorial Board October 10, 2014

With midterm season in full swing, complaints of colds and sickness are sure to soon be a constant of life on theHilltop. Luckily, the Georgetown community also has a simple and free step at our disposal...

Georgetown Fall Epidemics: Weather, Fashion and Other Horrific Plagues

Georgetown Fall Epidemics: Weather, Fashion and Other Horrific Plagues

By Matt Sullivan and Matt Sullivan October 19, 2013

It's that time of the year again, Hoyas: Georgetown is being plagued by the autumn and fall epidemics of every sort are spreading like Chicken Finger Thursday madness, and there isn't anything we can do...

How to Beat the Flu (Before it Happens)

How to Beat the Flu (Before it Happens)

By KP and KP September 17, 2013

It's that time again, Hoyas: BeWell Week. So if your life is anywhere near as ironic as mine tends to be, you're either deathly ill or you're about to become so in the coming days. And, chances are, you're...

When Skipping Class Is Best

By The Editorial Board September 17, 2013

A flu bug has swept through campus recently, making many classrooms an exhibition of coughing, sneezing and sniffling. Sadly, many professors impose strict absence policies that only reinforce the spreading...

Annual Flu Shots Available at Yates

By David Schuler October 8, 2010

The Student Health Center, in conjunction with the Office of Faculty and Staff Benefits, is continuing to offer flu vaccine shots at no charge to all students, faculty and staff through several flu vaccine...

How Can Universities Use Their Megaphones’

By Carol Lancaster September 28, 2007

There is nothing like a good bout of the flu (which I suspect my students have generously shared with me) to make one consider the meaning of life and other elevated thoughts. My particular elevated thought...

Load More Stories
Donate to The Hoya