Video Text Alternative: NICHD COVID-19 Research Milestones

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TITLE SLIDE Heading: 2020 A series of circles of different sizes and colors appears, along with four photographs showing a business sign that reads, “Closed due to Coronavirus,” a father with three children on his lap and file boxes stacked up behind him, a computer monitor displaying NICHD Director Doctor Diana Bianchi participating in a virtual meeting with a banner reading, “COVID-19 and Children,” and a mother breastfeeding an infant.	Music plays.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The photo of the “Closed due to Coronavirus” sign moves left and is magnified. The following text appears: March. The Word Health Organization declares COVID-19 a pandemic.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and the photo of a father and his children is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: March. Telework-approved staff move to full-time remote work; labs restrict on-site work to mission-critical only and begin minimal maintenance for non-mission critical.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and the photo of NICHD Director Doctor Diana Bianchi participating in a virtual meeting on COVID-19 and children is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: April. NICHD holds its first virtual Town Hall.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and the photo of a woman breastfeeding an infant is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: April. NICHD and NIDA begin co-leading the Trans-NIH COVID Workgroup on Pregnant & Lactating Women and Children.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a health care worker in a mask and scrubs holding a patient’s hand is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: May. NICHD launches the GRAVID study on pregnancy care and outcomes during the pandemic.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of two people wearing masks, sitting in a waiting room, and practicing social distancing is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: May. Group 0, mission-critical workers, is the first to return to campus under new and challenging circumstances.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a hospital worker in protective clothing and a mask is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: June. NICHD research nurse specialist deploys with USPHS to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico to provide COVID-19 care.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of an infant in a hospital bed wearing a diaper and with a tube attached to their foot is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: June. NICHD-funded Pediatric Trials Network launches a study of existing medications for treating COVID-19 in children.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of two lab workers in masks and protective clothing is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: June. Group A, doing lab and other work that cannot be done remotely, returns to campus under new safety requirements.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a pregnant woman wearing a mask and lying on an examination bed is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: July. DIR study: Placenta lacks molecules to transmit SARS-CoV-2 to the fetus.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a lab worker wearing a mask and using a pipette is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: July. Group B, tackling lab and other activities that are difficult to do remotely, begins to return to campus.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a health care worker in a mask using a stethoscope to listen to a child’s heartbeat is magnified to take its place. The child is also wearing a mask. The following text appears: August. NICHD launches PreVAIL kIds funding opportunities as part of RADx-Rad.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a lab worker in a mask standing next to a microscope and holding a petri dish is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: August. Second wave of Group B workers begins to return to campus.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a health care worker wearing a mask and writing on a clipboard is magnified to take its place. She stands next to a girl wearing a mask lying in a hospital bed. A man wearing a mask is seated next to the bed and holds the patient’s hand. The following text appears: August. NICHD-funded Pediatric Trials Network begins studying the first of what will eventually be more than 70 drugs to optimize treatments for MIS-C.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a child wearing a mask is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: August. Study by NICHD-funded IDD Research Centers: COVID-19 takes a higher toll on those with IDDs.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a woman wearing a head covering and colorful dress and breastfeeding a baby is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: September. NICHD launches Global Network study of COVID-19 effects on maternal, fetal, and newborn outcomes in low- to middle-income countries.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of youth wearing a mask and sitting in a wheelchair in a classroom is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: November. NICHD funds COVID-19 project that will offer 50,000 saliva tests in special education schools in St. Louis.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2020 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a pregnant woman wearing a mask and holding her abdomen is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: December. NICHD-funded study: COVID-19 transmission to fetus unlikely during third trimester.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and an electron microscopic image of the COVID-19 virus and antibodies is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: January. NICHD-funded study: Lower placental antibody transfer for COVID-19 in third trimester versus second trimester.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous image becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a pregnant woman wearing a mask and putting her hand to her forehead is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: January. NICHD-funded study: Giving birth during pandemic linked to anxiety and PTSD.	Music changes.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a pregnant woman wearing a mask and lying in a hospital bed is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: January. GRAVID study early findings: More severe COVID-19 during pregnancy increases risk for complications during and after pregnancy.	New music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a health worker giving a pregnant woman a vaccination is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: February. NICHD leaders call for inclusion of pregnant and lactating people in studies of COVID-19 vaccines.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a health care provider wearing a mask and using a stethoscope to listen to a child’s heartbeat is magnified to take its place. The child is also wearing a mask. The following text appears: March. With NICHD, NIH launches post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection effort to understand “long COVID.”	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a health care provider wearing a mask and talking with a pregnant woman who is wearing a mask, holding her abdomen, and sitting on an exam table is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: March. NICHD-funded study: SARS-CoV-2 vaccines create more antibodies in pregnant people than are generated by natural SARS-CoV-2 infection.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of children wearing masks and backpacks and lining up outside a school door is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: April. NICHD/NIH awards Safe Return to School Diagnostic Testing Initiative grants, part of RADx-UP.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a medical illustration of a placenta is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: May. NICHD-funded study: Outermost fetal cells of the placenta may hold SARS-CoV-2 and prevent it from reaching the fetus.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous image becomes smaller and moves left, and an electron microscope image of the COVID-19 mu variant is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: June. DIR study: TEMPOL may be a promising oral treatment for COVID-19.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous image becomes smaller and moves left, and an illustration of a pregnant woman’s silhouette in profile is magnified to take its place. A cutaway of her abdomen shows the fetus in the womb, attached to the placenta by the umbilical cord. The following text appears: August. An NICHD-led NIH panel recommends standard criteria to define placental COVID-19 infection.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous image becomes smaller and moves left, and a cross-sectional illustration of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: August. DIR study: Blocking S-acylation may successfully treat COVID-19.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a woman wearing a mask and holding up her sleeve to show an adhesive bandage on her arm is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: August. NICHD funds 1.67 million dollars in supplemental grants on COVID-19 vaccines and menstrual changes.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a pair of gloved hands injecting a vaccine into an arm is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: September. NICHD-funded study: Breastfeeding people who received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine show no serious adverse events.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a youth wearing a mask looking out a school bus window is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: September. NICHD-funded study: Weekly rapid saliva tests may reduce COVID-19 transmission in schools for children with IDDs.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a schoolgirl wearing a mask and a backpack is magnified to take its place. The following text appears: September. NICHD-funded longitudinal studies add questions about the impact of wearing masks to the next data collection.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of NICHD Director Doctor Diana Bianchi participating in a virtual meeting is magnified to take its place. Below that image is a screen shot of a line graph from the virtual meeting. The following text appears: October. NICHD hosts its 18^th virtual Town Hall, bringing the total number of virtual meetings conducted since March 2020 to 423.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE Heading: 2021 The previous photo becomes smaller and moves left, and a photo of a woman participating in a virtual meeting is magnified to take its place. Below this image is a screen shot of a slide from that meeting with the headline “What Can We Do?” and a list of suggestions. The following text appears: October. To maximize productivity during the pandemic, NICHD has provided a record number of tech and devices to staff, including:	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE The previous photo is replaced by a photo of NICHD Director Doctor Diana Bianchi next to a laptop computer. The previous text continues: 800+ laptops, 800+ docking stations, 600+ keyboards and mice, 400+ headsets, 370+ mobile phones, 320+ printers, and 300+ monitors.	Music continues.
GRAPHICS SLIDE The previous image and text are replaced by the following text: Thank you to the entire NICHD Family for your heroic efforts in the face of the pandemic.	Music continues.
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