Medicaid expansion improved the stability of insurance coverage for low-income women in the months leading up to and right after the birth of their babies, Columbia researchers found.
Jeffrey Shaman, a public health expert at Columbia University, calculated that more than 90 percent of Covid-19 deaths could have been avoided through early May.
Ross Frommer, VP for government and community affairs at CUIMC, shares why voting in the November election and completing the 2020 Census are important acts of civic engagement for our community.
On the whole, the theory “has some merits,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University who was not involved in the commentary. “But I’m still pretty skeptical.”
For this guide, I reviewed the current literature and interviewed Beth Rackow, M.D., a reproductive endocrinologist and director of the pediatric and adolescent gynecology program at CUIMC.
“I have no doubt in saying that smoking and vaping could put people at increased risk of poor outcomes from Covid-19,” said Dr. Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, a pediatric pulmonologist at Columbia.
