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Jan 12, 2022 | In the Media
“For a lot of people there has been this hope that there will be a day where victory will be declared. They will say, ‘Today was the end of COVID, and tomorrow we will live in a COVID-free world again,’” says Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, professor of epidemiology and medicine...
Jan 10, 2022 | In the Media
“Undoubtedly, this is going to result in more transmission in communities where there is a delay in access or poor access to the testing,” Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at Columbia University,...
Jan 10, 2022 | In the Media
Since the new year, the Omicron variant is spreading rapidly. The United States has more than 1 million confirmed cases per day. Washington, D.C. and New York have declared a state of emergency and are implementing strong quarantine policies. A third dose of youth is...
Jan 5, 2022 | In the Media
The authors — who includes ICAP’s Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr — conclude that about 22 billion doses of high-quality mRNA vaccines are now needed to slow the pandemic’s spread, given the omicron variant’s ability to evade some of the immune protection conferred by prior...
Jan 4, 2022 | In the Media
Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, director of ICAP, a global health center at Columbia University, said the case count does not appear to be the most important number now. Instead, she said, the U.S. at this stage of the pandemic should be “shifting our focus, especially in an era...
Jan 4, 2022 | In the Media
“When you start to see different kinds of data all pointing in the same direction, you begin to feel more confident that it’s going to hold up,” said Jessica Justman, a Columbia University Medical Center...