CDC accused of withholding data on Covid | CNBC
CEID Founding Director Dr. Nahid Bhadelia appeared on The News with Shepard Smith to discuss the publication of CDC COVID-19 data. Watch the full interview here
It’s Time to Take Coronavirus in Africa Seriously | Global Health Now
CEID Faculty Dr. Mosoka Fallah co-wrote this opinion about the global response to COVID-19 in Africa. The authors state, in part: “When the Ebola virus was ravaging West African countries in 2014, health care providers, public health researchers and activists worked feverishly to stamp it out before it spread and turned into the type of […]
We’re Entering the Control Phase of the Pandemic | The Atlantic
CEID Faculty Dr. Ellie Murray weighs in on the “control phase” of COVID-19: “…Control manages a threat down into something that society can accept day after day after day—practically, less disease, less death, less suffering than might otherwise occur. It is ‘how we talk about diseases we’re doing something about,’ says Ellie Murray, an epidemiologist […]
Missouri plotting official ‘end’ to COVID-19 pandemic, document says | News Tribune
CEID Faculty Dr. Ellie Murray weighs in on endemicity: “…Despite the trend, some epidemiologists have criticized the political use of the term ‘endemic,’ saying a desire to return to a pre-COVID-19 normal doesn’t align with the actual science around how pandemics end. Ellie Murray, an epidemiologist at Boston University’s School of Public Health who has […]
Has Mass. Closed the Racial Gap for COVID Vaccinations? Here’s What Boston Doctors Say | NBC 10 Boston
CEID Faculty Dr. Cassandra Pierre joined a group of Boston doctors to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Black community: “…When COVID-19 vaccines were first rolled out in 2020, there were concerns about vaccine hesitancy in part due to historical trauma that still exists within the Black community. ‘We are still contending with […]
Could coronavirus become endemic? Boston doctors weigh in | WGBH
CEID Faculty Dr. Cassandra Pierre weighs in on endemicity: “…’It is true that other countries have been able to experience … less upheavals or surges in COVID-19 numbers. When COVID-19 reaches endemicity or the endemic state in one area, it doesn’t necessarily mean that all areas sync up with that, and we are not in […]
COVID-19 vaccines for young children delayed | The Gloucester Times
CEID Faculty Dr. David Hamer weighs in on COVID vaccines for young children: “… ‘Younger kids are at a very low risk for severe infections and hospitalizations, but they can still become infected and shed a lot of virus,’ said Dr. David Hamer, an infectious disease expert and professor at Boston University’s School of Public […]
Mask mandates are falling prematurely. We can still keep people safe. | Washington Post
CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad co-authored an opinion in the Washington Post and weighs in on mask mandates: “A growing number of states that had adopted strict mitigation measures during the omicron surge have announced plans to lift indoor mask mandates, including in schools. Citing declining case counts and hospitalizations, governors in California, New York, […]
With new masking guidance, is Mass. marching back toward some version of normal? | The Boston Globe
CEID Faculty Dr. David Hamer weighs in on COVID prevention measures: “…The changing mask guidance is consistent with Baker’s other messaging, said Doron, who has advised the administration. Members of Baker’s Cabinet, for example, urged Massachusetts college leaders in late January to begin viewing the pandemic as an ‘endemic, a highly contagious virus that is […]
Hints of a long COVID wave as Omicron fades | The Harvard Gazette
CEID Founding Director Dr. Nahid Bhadelia weighs in on long COVID: “Nahid Bhadelia, co-lead of the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness’ long COVID program, director of the Boston University Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research, and an infectious diseases physician at Boston Medical Center, said during a recent media briefing that long COVID […]