To stop a pandemic before it starts, protect dairy workers from H5N1 | The Washington Post
Because of pasteurization practices which render pathogens such as H5N1 inactive, general consumers don not need to be concerned about contracting avian flu through milk or other dairy products. However, as CEID director Dr. Nahid Bhadelia and CEID affiliate Lauren Sauer write in an op-ed for The Washington Post, “Preventing farmworker infections and uncontrolled spread […]
Scientists call new measures to control bird flu in cows ‘a drop in the bucket’ | Science
CEID affiliate faculty Lauren Sauer recently expressed her concern about the lack of widespread testing of animals for H5N1. “We’re not looking where we don’t already see indicators that the virus is there, and that never gives us enough information.” Read the full article from Science.
The 5 phases of COVID’s endgame | Popular Science
CEID Faculty Lauren Sauer weighs in on the current phase of COVID: “…Sauer agrees that we shouldn’t think the pandemic peak has come and gone, now matter how promising the fall in current infection rates seems, or how fatigued the world is. ‘Part of the message is to continue to fight a little longer,” she […]
Surveillance: Fed Tightening Risk With Fernandez | Bloomberg
CEID Faculty Lauren Sauer is featured on Bloomberg’s Surveillance podcast, commenting that, “we are not out of this pandemic yet.” Listen to the full podcast here
CEID Experts Weigh In on Omicron
The first U.S. case of the COVID-19 Omicron variant was reported earlier this week. Given the lingering questions about the spread of Omicron amidst the holiday season, here’s a roundup of what some of our CEID faculty experts had to say: Dr. Nahid Bhadelia joined Ayman Mohyeldin on MSNBC to discuss the emergence of Omicron […]
Surveillance: Omicron Uncertainty With Ward
CEID Faculty Lauren Sauer is featured on Bloomberg’s Surveillance podcast. She says, “we could see omicron updates to covid vaccines within 2-4 months if necessary.” Listen here.
Before The Pandemic, The United States Had Begun Building A Special Pathogen System. What Can We Learn from Its COVID-19 Response?
CEID Faculty Lauren Sauer co-authors a piece reflecting back on what the U.S. could and should have done to build pandemic preparedness.
Johns Hopkins’ Sauer on the Race to Stop Delta Strain Spread
CEID Affiliate Lauren Sauer discusses the COVID-19 Delta Variant and the efforts underway to ensure access to vaccination and adherence to the first and second dose of vaccine.