In the Media
Oct 6, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP, was quoted in an Oct 5 article in The New Yorker analyzing the earliest documented clusters of coronavirus infections. Dr. El-Sadr pointed out that Chinese scientists had quickly sequenced the virus’s genome, which...
Oct 6, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP, was quoted in an Oct 5 article in The Hour discussing the closure of several NYC schools in communities experiencing an increase in COVID cases. Dr. El-Sadr touched on the importance of bringing community leaders...
Oct 3, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP, was quoted in a Oct 2 article in NPR presenting the latest science behind the COVID window period, or the time between exposure to the coronavirus and a positive test. As with HIV, people who have contracted...
Oct 2, 2020 | In the Media, News
ICAP’s Jessica Justman, MD, senior technical director, was quoted in an Oct 1 Gothamist article discussing widespread fears about the rising COVID-19 case rates across New York City. Dr. Justman spoke to the concerns of public health experts, saying: “The...
Oct 1, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP, was quoted on in a recent round table chat among journalists at Bloomberg Quint. The transcript is part of a recurring series of published virtual chats among journalists as they discuss the latest news around the...
Sep 30, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP, was quoted in a September 29 article in The City & State New York which discusses how Black and Latino people have died at much higher rates than white New Yorkers. Underlying health conditions and higher rates...