May 20 2020: College Fellows Kristen Feemster, MD, MPH, MSHPR, and Jeffrey Hom, MD, MPH, recently appeared on a list of key individuals in the City’s Health Department who are leading the COVID-19 response
The team has been working nearly 24/7 since the pandemic landed.
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: College Fellow and Trustee Edith Mitchell, MD, MACP, made Philadelphia Magazine’s list of “8 Trailblazing Women in Philly’s Health-Care Revolution”
The forces driving Philly medicine are increasingly female. Meet the women at the forefront of the movement.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.