The model has not been published or peer-reviewed yet, but lead researcher, Jeffrey Shaman, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University, shared the data exclusively with NPR.
Pregnant women face greater risks to their health from COVID-19 than the general population and should be offered a vaccine if eligible, say experts at Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian.
Cancer patients on active treatment are 35% less likely to develop COVID-19 than patients not receiving treatment, though those who did test positive for SARS-CoV-2 experienced higher death rates.
Bianca Jones Marlin is working to answer one of biology’s most perplexing questions: How does stress or trauma get passed down to children and even grandchildren?
The world has “allowed the virus to infect 100 million people already,” says virologist David Ho, who heads the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center. “That is 100 million chances for mutation.”
Ian Lipkin, one of the experts interviewed for this episode of Frontline, is the director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Mailman School. Dr. Lipkin's comments begin at 21:45.
The 2014 expansion of Medicaid in New York state was linked to a significant decrease in severe complications during labor and delivery among low-income women, a new Columbia study has found.
