Nov 24, 2021 | In the Media
November 6, 2021— “The Delta variant is more contagious and we need to get people vaccinated in every country,” said Dr. Jessica Justman, associate professor of Medicine in Epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and senior technical director at...
Nov 24, 2021 | In the Media
November 8, 2021– “[These regulations] get at the idea that there is the need for social and economic life,” Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, the chair of global health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, tells Verywell. “It’s...
Nov 24, 2021 | In the Media
October 28, 2021– Jessica Justman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University, says scientists had been working on mRNA technology for years, including efforts to study other respiratory diseases such as SARS and MERS. “We did a survey asking people what would get...
Nov 23, 2021 | In the Media
November 5, 2021 – The virus in one species has to mutate just right so that it can effectively invade the cells of a different species. “It appears that pets catch the virus from their owners rather than the other way around,” says Jessica Justman, a Columbia...