Millions more Americans will be infected with SARS-CoV-2 and become ill with COVID-19 if policies to enforce physical distancing are lifted prematurely, Mailman epidemiologists say.
Social distancing, masking and other measures should remain in place until late July, “and that may be optimistic,” said Dr. Jeffrey Shaman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University.
Mailman experts and other policymakers discuss measures that should be deployed during vaccine rollout to reduce inequities, already worsened by the pandemic, in the U.S. and globally.
The CUIMC Task Force for Addressing Structural Racism in the Health Sciences has developed a lecture series to focus on research on racial/ethnic health disparities and their solutions.
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, will serve as the next director of Columbia World Projects, an initiative focused on bringing Columbia's academic resources to bear on the great challenges facing humanity.
Nursing's Elizabeth Corwin, PhD, helped found the Women’s Health Research & Well-being Workgroup, which promotes equity in health care for women through rigorous research and policy change.
For now, the two vaccines available in the U.S. are found to be similarly safe and effective, says Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University in New York.
