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Nov 15, 2022 | In the Media
“Viruses don’t respect borders,” said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and lead of the New York City Pandemic Response Institute.
Nov 15, 2022 | In the Media
A study published in July by ICAP at Columbia University found that severe food insecurity approximately doubles the risk of contracting HIV among women in six countries in the region, because it often leads them to engage in transactional...
Nov 15, 2022 | In the Media
“There’s been a lot of conversation about the potential for truly sexual transmission versus what we call transmission during sex,” said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University. “Until we have definitive proof, we...
Nov 15, 2022 | In the Media
In general, there’s probably much more Covid circulating than we realize, according to Jessica Justman, an infectious-diseases specialist and epidemiologist at the Columbia University Medical Center.
Nov 15, 2022 | In the Media
“We’ve now had a couple of winters of people being more careful than usual, masking and staying in, and so people have had less exposure to flu and respiratory syncytial virus for a couple of years,” Justman said. “And so I think that our immune systems are, a little...
Nov 15, 2022 | In the Media
“That steady increase in the Black and African American population really makes me say, you know, we can’t just completely sit back here,” Justman said.