May 5 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, spoke about the mutation of viruses on Salon.com
The dominant strain in much of the world is now a more contagious variant of the original virus…
May 5 2020: College Fellow, Herbert Cushing, MD, appeared on Maine Public Radio to talk about the latest in COVID-19 updates and experiencing COVID-19
New information and research continues to emerge regarding COVID-19. We will discuss the evolving knowledge about the disease, including: a range of
May 4 2020: Robert Hicks, former Director of the Mütter Museum, explains why it can be hard for individuals to accept a pandemic and the regulations that come with it (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
First off, foresight is not a particular skill for most of us, experts say. And “live free or die” is more than a slogan; it’s an apt description for the mindset of many Americans. Finally, it is hard to assess the threat of an enemy you can’t see, like the coronavirus.
May 3 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, appeared on Today to talk about the U.S. re-opening
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist to discuss the reopening of state economies and how it would be “unprecedentedly quick” to have a coronavirus vaccine by January.
April 30 2020: College Fellow Virginia Hall, MD, discussed the benefits of physician health plans
Support PHPs as PHPs prevent suicide. Stay safe. Be well.
April 27 2020: College Fellow, Pascal Jabbour, MD, appeared on CNN to talk about COVID-19 and sudden strokes
25 April 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, spoke to ABC News about COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing (Source: 6 ABC)
Scientists are tacking the question of how to scale-up COVID-19 vaccine production once a vaccine is found.
22 April 2020: College Fellow Robert Bassett, DO, discusses his deployment with the 139th Medical Brigade out of Independence, MO. His task force was sent to Stamford, CT, which is about 20 miles north of New York City and the epicenter of the Connecticut COVID-19 crisis (Source: US Department of Defense Defense News)
U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bassett, an emergency physician with the Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force 811-1, provides an interview at Stamford Hospital-Bennett Medical Center, Stamford, Conn., April 23, 2020.
April 22 2020: College Fellow, Herbert Cushing, MD, appeared on Maine Public Radio to talk about the latest in COVID-19 updates and experiencing COVID-19 (Source: Maine Public Radio)
We talk with an infectious disease doctor as well as Mainers who have experienced what it?s like to have COVID-19, and what the process of testing and
20 April 2020: College Fellow and Board Chair, Thomas Fekete, MD, MACP, is quoted in this NBC 10 piece discussing the realities of finding reliable antibody testing. (Source: NBC 10)
A new tool in the hunt for the coronavirus is being unveiled by medical systems across the country, and it’s called antibody testing. Testing that will determine on a bigger scale the scope of infections is ramping up now, though it likely won’t be reliable for a few weeks.
