America’s Infectious-Disease Barometer Is Off | The Atlantic

The public is quick to focus on what is the newest infectious disease concern – and equally quick to move on when a new threat appears. CEID director Dr. Nahid Bhadelia spoke to The Atlantic about the current need to balance researching to better understand H5N1, while not ignoring other re-emerging threats such as measles. […]

America Created Its Own Booster Problems | The Atlantic

CEID Faculty Dr. Nina Mazar comments on COVID-19 vaccine misinformation: “…the arrival of boosters, then, felt to some like an admission that the first shots were a bungle—that the government and scientists had ‘made a mistake,’ says Nina Mazar, a behavioral scientist at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Misinformation, including false rumors that the […]

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 […]

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.” […]

How the Pandemic Now Ends

CEID Faculty Dr. Eleanor Murray explains how the delta variant has changed what the end of the pandemic will look like in the United States and globally.