May 4 2020: Robert Hicks, former Director of the Mütter Museum, explains why it can be hard for individuals to accept a pandemic and the regulations that come with it (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
First off, foresight is not a particular skill for most of us, experts say. And “live free or die” is more than a slogan; it’s an apt description for the mindset of many Americans. Finally, it is hard to assess the threat of an enemy you can’t see, like the coronavirus.
May 3 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, appeared on Today to talk about the U.S. re-opening
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist to discuss the reopening of state economies and how it would be “unprecedentedly quick” to have a coronavirus vaccine by January.
25 April 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, spoke to ABC News about COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing (Source: 6 ABC)
Scientists are tacking the question of how to scale-up COVID-19 vaccine production once a vaccine is found.
22 April 2020: College Fellow Robert Bassett, DO, discusses his deployment with the 139th Medical Brigade out of Independence, MO. His task force was sent to Stamford, CT, which is about 20 miles north of New York City and the epicenter of the Connecticut COVID-19 crisis (Source: US Department of Defense Defense News)
U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bassett, an emergency physician with the Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force 811-1, provides an interview at Stamford Hospital-Bennett Medical Center, Stamford, Conn., April 23, 2020.
April 22 2020: College Fellow, Herbert Cushing, MD, appeared on Maine Public Radio to talk about the latest in COVID-19 updates and experiencing COVID-19 (Source: Maine Public Radio)
We talk with an infectious disease doctor as well as Mainers who have experienced what it?s like to have COVID-19, and what the process of testing and
20 April 2020: College Fellow and Board Chair, Thomas Fekete, MD, MACP, is quoted in this NBC 10 piece discussing the realities of finding reliable antibody testing. (Source: NBC 10)
A new tool in the hunt for the coronavirus is being unveiled by medical systems across the country, and it’s called antibody testing. Testing that will determine on a bigger scale the scope of infections is ramping up now, though it likely won’t be reliable for a few weeks.
18 April 2020: College Fellow and Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley, MD, MPH, discusses why Philadelphia will not be reopening soon (Source: 6 ABC)
City leaders said Friday that there are no plans to reopen Philadelphia in the near future as the coronavirus battle continues.
17 April 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, appears on WHYY’s RadioTimes about unlocking the novel cornoavirus (Source: WHYY)
We discuss what makes the novel coronavirus such an effective and dangerous pathogen in the human body and the race to develop a vaccine against it.
16 April 2020: College Fellow, Trustee, and Chair of the Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine Priya Mammen, MD, MPH, writes about her experiences as an emergency room doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The frontlines right now are defined by contradictions: unrelenting responsibility, yet also merciful permission to leave social isolation.
14 April 2020: College Fellow Nadia Dowshen, MD, MSHP, writes an OpEd for Philadelphia Inquirer how telemedicine appointments are helping them learn more about their patients. (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
A pediatrician caring for youth living with HIV and transgender youth learns how telemedicine can help treat these vulnerable patients in new ways.