One Step Forward, Three Steps Back | The Fox News Rundown From Washington Podcast
CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad speaks with Jared Halpern about COVID-19 variant surges and at-home test kits. “Dr. Madad addresses how necessary, pandemic-related information, is getting lost in communication because it’s not being presented in a digestible way. However, Dr. Madad acknowledges that the at-home test kit rollout is a game-changer for equipping Americans with […]
Omicron Cases Appear to Peak in U.S., but Deaths Continue to Rise | New York Times
CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad was quoted in the New York Times regarding the Omicron surge: “..Reports of new infections continue to grow in North Dakota, which is averaging four times as many cases a day as at the start of January, and in Alabama, where hospitalizations have roughly doubled over the last two weeks. […]
Booster shots effective against severe illness from omicron | CNBC
CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad is quoted in CNBC article about new research released by the CDC: “…The three new studies from the agency are among the first to look at the vaccines’ impact against omicron in the United States, which now accounts for more than 99 percent of new cases in the country.The […]
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 […]
Omicron Is Forcing Us to Rethink Mild COVID | The Atlantic
CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad points out reasons to avoid a large spike in omicron infections. “‘Better treatments for Omicron are on the horizon’, Syra Madad, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Harvard, told me…. ‘It’s a terrible time to unfortunately be hospitalized and not have these types of therapies available,’ Madad said.” Read the full article […]
Omicron Isn’t Mild for the Health-Care System | The Atlantic
CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad discusses hospital staffing shortages during the omicron wave. “Understaffed hospitals can hire travel nurses, but Omicron has spread so quickly that too many facilities ‘are pulling from the same labor pool—and if that pool is sick, where are the reinforcements?’ Syra Madad, an infectious-disease epidemiologist in New York, told me.” […]
Could Omicron Hasten the Transition From Pandemic to Endemic? | WebMD
CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad answers the question, how does the transition from pandemic to endemic work? “‘A transition from pandemic to endemic is ‘not a light switch and there’s no metrics associated with what endemic means for COVID-19,’ says Syra Madad, a doctor of health care science and infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard’s Belfer Center for […]
You asked: I’m unvaccinated and immunocompromised. How can I travel safely? | Yahoo News
CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad answers a frequently asked question by Yahoo! News readers. “Syra Madad… recommends putting off any nonessential travel until you can get vaccinated or transmission rates are lower.” Read the full article here
Why COVID-19 hospitalizations of Canadian kids — and infants — could keep rising as Omicron spreads | CBC
CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad comments on common COVID-19 symptoms that children may experience. “‘The trend of Omicron targeting the airways of both adults and children is evident both in the real world and in laboratory studies,’ noted Dr. Syra Madad, senior director of special pathogens for the New York City Health System. ‘This is […]
Outlook For COVID-19, Taxes, Energy, And Real Estate | Bloomberg
CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad is featured on The Tape podcast to comment on the latest about the omicron wave. “I think that many of us are predicting that the omicron wave is going to be less of an issue in terms of how long it will be at a very high level of community […]