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Mar 10, 2021 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA shares her views on CDC guidelines regarding vaccinated people wearing masks and social distancing indoors. Whether the guidelines will clear things up is still up for debate, said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, professor of epidemiology and medicine...
Mar 10, 2021 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD speaks with WHBL and discusses the health of older Americans after a year of quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jessica Justman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University, said some people might feel confused at the dual messages from public...
Mar 10, 2021 | In the Media, News
In Bloomberg Law, Wafaa-El Sadr, MD, MPH, MA weighs in on CDC’s travel guidance for vaccinated people who want to travel. The CDC may have felt it was “premature” to update the travel guidance, said Wafaa El-Sadr, professor of epidemiology and medicine at...
Mar 10, 2021 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MA speaks with Brian Lehrer of WNYC and his audience to discuss the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine, COVID-19 variants, and COVID-19 equity questions. “Let me start first by highlighting that we are very fortunate for having three vaccines...
Mar 10, 2021 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MA shares concern to The New York Times that though New York City’s COVID-19 community transmission rate has slowed down, it has not slowed as much as in other parts of the country. “Everything seems so tenuous and fragile in many ways,”...
Mar 8, 2021 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MA offers perspective to The New York Times on their analysis of the decrease in number of COVID-19 cases. “It’s a great moment of optimism, but it’s also very fragile in a lot of ways,” said Wafaa El-Sadr, an epidemiologist at Columbia...