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.
18 April 2020: College Fellow and Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley, MD, MPH, discusses why Philadelphia will not be reopening soon (Source: 6 ABC)
City leaders said Friday that there are no plans to reopen Philadelphia in the near future as the coronavirus battle continues.
17 April 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, appears on WHYY’s RadioTimes about unlocking the novel cornoavirus (Source: WHYY)
We discuss what makes the novel coronavirus such an effective and dangerous pathogen in the human body and the race to develop a vaccine against it.
16 April 2020: College Fellow, Trustee, and Chair of the Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine Priya Mammen, MD, MPH, writes about her experiences as an emergency room doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The frontlines right now are defined by contradictions: unrelenting responsibility, yet also merciful permission to leave social isolation.
14 April 2020: College Fellow Nadia Dowshen, MD, MSHP, writes an OpEd for Philadelphia Inquirer how telemedicine appointments are helping them learn more about their patients. (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
A pediatrician caring for youth living with HIV and transgender youth learns how telemedicine can help treat these vulnerable patients in new ways.
14 April 2020: College Fellow, Carmen Guerra, MD, MSCE, takes a hard look at the health, economic, and cultural factors that have resulted in the dramatic spread of COVID-19 among the African-American community. (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
In order to understand why so many African Americans are dying, it?s important to see the reasons why they are more likely to contract COVID-19 in the first place. There are many.
13 April 2020: College Fellow, Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, JD, writes a piece for Philadelphia Inquirer highlighting the plight of those working to protect some of our most vulnerable citizens from COVID-19. (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Human services providers for those with intellectual disabilities, autism, brain injury and behavioral challenges are valiantly grappling with a no-win situation: how to manage safely through the COVID-19 Pandemic.
12 April 2020: College Fellow, Amy Goldberg, MD, was featured in an article from The Inquirer about Philadelphia’s busiest COVID-19 hospital: Temple University Hospital’s Esther K. Boyer Pavilion.
Temple sees more COVID-19 patients than any other Philly hospital. We take you inside.