May 14 2020: College Fellow Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, discusses the innovative nature of nurses, providing examples from the nurses on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic at Penn
May 13 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, spoke to Philadelphia Magazine about the misinformation about COVID-19 circulating
May 13 2020: College Fellow Generosa Grana, MD, appeared on FOX29 to report on the decline of outpatient visits and screenings that have been missed during the COVID-19 pandemic
The number of visits to ambulatory practices has declined 60 percent since mid-March, according a study,
May 9 2020: Dr. René Najera, epidemiologist and editor of the College’s HistoryofVaccines.org, appeared on NPR
They see these demonstrations as a way to form political alliances that promote their movement.
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 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 27 2020: College Fellow, Pascal Jabbour, MD, appeared on CNN to talk about COVID-19 and sudden strokes
April 27 2020: The Inquirer featured the Mütter Museum commissioned song, “Protect Yourself from Infection,” written by David Lang and performed by The Crossing (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The David Lang composition, performed by Philadelphia’s The Crossing choir, was part of last fall?s “Spit Spreads Death” parade. It gets a national airing on public radio on Monday.
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