Despite omicron, most Mass. colleges to return to campus in person and on time | GBH News
CEID Faculty Dr. David Hamer discusses COVID-19 prevention measures in Boston colleges. “I think everybody’s hoping that [omicron’s] going to rise really quickly and fall just as quickly.” Read the full article here
Mass. relaxes contact tracing in schools that offer rapid tests to students and staff | Boston Globe
CEID Faculty Dr. David Hamer shares his reaction to COVID-19 prevention measures in schools. “’As we move to lower transmission, I think we should be prioritizing testing of symptomatic students, teachers, and staff,’ Hamer said, adding that classroom transmission has appeared to be minimal.” Read the full article here
NYC doctor answers omicron COVID variant FAQ’s | Pix 11 New York
CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad answers FAQs about the omicron variant on Pix 11. “The omicron variant is more transmissible than delta, but preliminary data shows it causes less severe disease than delta. A person’s vaccination status, age, health status, and other factors play a role in disease progression and severity.” Read the full article […]
How will we know when the COVID-19 pandemic is over? | Poynter
CEID Founding Director Dr. Nahid Bhadelia discusses COVID-19 endemicity in Poynter. “A lot will depend on whether the virus has faded enough for society to function under the status quo, said Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, the founding director of Boston University’s Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research. ‘Can our society function if (the) current […]
What happens to previous COVID-19 variants when a new one becomes dominant? | KRON4 San Francisco
CEID Faculty Dr. David Hamer talks about how our response to COVID-19 varies depending on different variants. “‘Omicron just pushed delta to the side, just like delta pushed everything else to the side,’ Dr. Davidson Hamer, a professor of Global Health and Medicine at the Boston University’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine, tells Nexstar.” […]
Evergrande reneges on multimillion-dollar pledge to Harvard-led COVID project, another stumble in its ties to school | Boston Globe
CEID Founding Director Dr. Nahid Bhadelia discusses the Harvard-led Consortium in The Boston Globe. “The consortium’s galvanizing investment is ‘important for patients, for the region, for all of us to return to normalcy,’ said Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, co-leader of the consortium’s working group on long COVID and director of the Boston University Center for Emerging […]
Northeastern University asks students with COVID to self-isolate inside dorms | GBH News
CEID Faculty Dr. Cassandra Pierre provides her reaction to Northeastern University’s response to omicron. “’As much as people like to talk about omicron like it’s [a cold], that’s simply not the case,’ Pierre said. She said Northeastern’s vaccine and booster mandates are important and effective. ‘However, not everyone in the orbit of the students in […]
Transcript: The 11th Hour, 1/14/22 | MSNBC
CEID Founding Director Dr. Nahid Bhadelia joins MSNBC to provide an update on the omicron variant. “I think that what we`re seeing is in some states who are reaching the peak, and the modeling in most cases says that by the end of January, a lot of states are not yet at the peak. And […]
Uncovering COVID-19’s Hidden Deaths in the US | The Brink
CEID Faculty Dr. Andrew Stokes talks about his experience leading a team of researchers from BU, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to analyze COVID-19 mortality data. “’Accurate and timely mortality surveillance is critical to pandemic preparedness and response efforts,’ he says. ‘Without accurate mortality data, it becomes very challenging to […]
Endemic vs. Pandemic—How COVID Is Evolving Amid Avalanche of Omicron Cases | Newsweek
CEID Faculty Dr. Eleanor Murry discusses the concept of endemicity in Newsweek. “[Dr. Murray] told Vox in 2021 that a disease is endemic if the reproductive number is stably at one, in which ‘one infected person, on average, infects one other person.'” Read the full article here