COVID-19
Jan 27, 2022 | News
In an article published in the American Journal of Public Health entitled Is Omicron Showing Us the Path Ahead?, co-authored by ICAP’s global director Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, and professor of medicine and epidemiology Steven Shea, MD, MS, the authors highlight...
Jan 27, 2022 | In the Media
“The phenomenon of ‘super immunity’ was also recently observed in South Africa, Dr. Jessica Justman, an associate professor of medicine in epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, tells Fortune… “The findings...
Jan 27, 2022 | News
Since February of 2020, New York City has lost over 30,000 residents to COVID-19 and experienced job losses higher than any other city in the United States. Over the course of the pandemic, major inequities across race and ethnicity, age, and class have highlighted...
Jan 26, 2022 | In the Media
Prior waves tended to have a symmetrical shape of cases going up and down, said Dr. Jessica Justman, associate professor of medicine in epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. “Since cases rose very quickly this omicron wave,...
Jan 26, 2022 | In the Media
Opinions vary, however, on the best time to get vaccinated after infection. Wafaa El-Sadr, an epidemiologist at Columbia University, told me in an email that once a person is recovered from Omicron, they must “get vaccinated and [a] booster dose as soon as...
