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Susannah Hills, an airway surgeon, is part of a tracheostomy team at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The team, when it formed at the start of the pandemic, decided to avoid early trachs.
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, shows how to ride the subway safely during the coronavirus pandemic and explains what the MTA is doing behind the scenes to keep the subway clean and prevent the spread of disease.
Finding opportunities for children to exercise their “brave muscles” and safely practice being away from their parents is especially tough in quarantine, said Paula Yanes-Lukin, Ph.D.
A study of cancer patients with COVID-19 finds mortality is significantly higher than in the general population and Black patients are half as likely to receive the antiviral remdesivir.
The American Academy of Nursing has selected three faculty members—Stephen Ferrara, Jingjing Shang, and Billy Caceres—to join its 2020 Class of Fellows.
Two Columbia psychologists write that practicing acceptance of our current reality—not toxic positivity—is a key way to cope with the mental health effects of the pandemic.
An online COVID-19 course on Aug. 24 and 25 offered by the Mailman School of Public Health will introduce participants to a variety of topics about the novel coronavirus.
“This gives us a sense at a deeper level of the magnitude of the penetration of the infection into the population,” said Wafaa El-Sadr, an epidemiology professor at Columbia University.
