Vaccine
Dec 24, 2021 | In the Media
One more note on the subject of COVID terminology. Dr. Waafa El-Sadr, chair of global health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, has another description she’d like to see made more precise: “breakthrough infections.”...
Dec 23, 2021 | In the Media
Though there’s still a lot scientists don’t know about omicron, it is unlikely to be the last variant that emerges from this pandemic. The question is whether omicron will now force the global vaccination campaign to recalibrate, especially if the definition of fully...
Dec 13, 2021 | In the Media
When the Omicron COVID-19 variant was first identified in South Africa, campaigners were quick to point the blame at the global West for failing to share COVID-19 vaccines with the world poorest countries. Global health expert Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr joins the Sky News...
Oct 27, 2021 | In the Media
It may be time for your Covid-19 vaccine booster shot. The Food and Drug Administration has now authorized additional doses of all three Covid-19 vaccines in the US — Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson — for certain higher-risk groups and has said...
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...