COVID-19
Apr 20, 2021 | News
In 2020, as the world collectively faced the ever-changing demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, ICAP at Columbia University quickly responded by conducting two baseline SARS-CoV-2 surveillance activities in Malawi and Cameroon. With funding from the U.S. Centers for...
Apr 19, 2021 | In the Media, News
In an Opinion piece with Allie Bohm of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA argues for a closer look at COVID-19 vaccine passports. “We are all anxious to get back to doing things we took for granted a year ago, and vaccine passports...
Apr 19, 2021 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA explains the lag in reporting COVID-19 as a cause of death on deaths certificates. Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, said the 60-day rule is...
Apr 19, 2021 | In the Media, News
Ellen Morrison, MD, MPH explains how Regeneron could be a useful tool to combat COVID-19 in New York City’s multigenerational households. “I’m past the point of believing that we’re going to completely do away with this virus, and I think...
Apr 19, 2021 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD comments on the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, explaining the slow of transmission in the region’s third lockdown. “The U.K. COVID-19 picture looks very encouraging right now,” Jessica Justman, MD, associate professor of...