In the Media
Sep 7, 2021 | In the Media
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA discusses evolving thoughts about achieving COVID-19 herd immunity with Al Jazeera. “Maybe we should move to using more of a terminology of ‘herd protection’ instead of ‘herd immunity’ as more a feasible goal...
Sep 7, 2021 | In the Media
Jessica Justman, MD spoke to Today.com about travel under the specter of the Delta variant. “It’s not where we thought we would be, perhaps even as recently as a month ago, where we thought that everything was going to get better and better. We’re in this complicated...
Sep 7, 2021 | In the Media
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA speaks with 1 News New Zealand about the COVID situation in the US more than a year into the pandemic. “What we’re seeing now in the US, as well as elsewhere around the world, is that, once you are able to get substantial numbers of people...
Sep 7, 2021 | In the Media
Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr said that she wished the mayor had imposed the restrictions earlier and that she did not see the point in further delaying them. “Once vaccination was widely available to people, which was weeks ago, I think requiring vaccination for access to such...
Aug 3, 2021 | In the Media
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP at Columbia University, encourages readers of Market Watch to look deeper into the concerns of unvaccinated individuals: “You can’t oversimplify the ‘complex’ pool of unvaccinated individuals...
Jul 30, 2021 | In the Media
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP at Columbia University, comments on the Tokyo Olympics being a Superspreader event: “Any time there are large numbers of people coming and mixing together, there is reason for concern.” Read the full...