COVID-19
Oct 27, 2021 | In the Media
Each wave of Covid-19 patients that has crashed through the doors of Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens has been more manageable than the last. In the spring of 2020 and the following winter, the hospital needed extra spaces to care for Covid-19 patients in...
Oct 26, 2021 | News
“In the HIV response, some of the principles that we hold dear is this idea that you have to bring to the table the people who are going to be the recipients of services,” said Wafaa El-Sadr, ICAP at Columbia University, leveraging her decades of...
Jul 23, 2021 | News
Photo Credit: European Union 2019/Photographer: Christian Jepsen Climate change is having a profound and escalating impact on health inequalities around the world. Events such as cyclones, tornadoes, and flooding are predicted to become more common and severe, along...
Jul 23, 2021 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA speaks about the need to increase the speed of vaccinating populations in New York City as the Delta variant continues to spread. Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, wondered why the city did not extend...
Jul 23, 2021 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD discusses how travelers can make summer plans while considering local COVID-19 case counts. Just as many travelers check the weather forecast before their trips, they should also make a habit of checking the local Covid-19 case count, says Jessica...
