Columbia Launches First Pandemic Simulation for Healthcare Executives

A strategic decision-making and team-building exercise for hospital executives developed at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health now includes a simulated pandemic—likely the first such simulation of its kind. The new pandemic...
5-Jan-2021 11:15 AM EST Add to Favorites

Study of COVID-19 Risk and Long-Term Effects Underway at 37 Academic Medical Centers

A new nationwide study of more than 50,000 individuals—coordinated by Columbia researchers—is now underway to determine factors that predict disease severity and long-term health impacts of COVID-19.
17-Nov-2020 2:15 PM EST Add to Favorites

Political Polarization: Often Not as Bad as We Think

As politics grows increasingly polarized, a new global study finds people often exaggerate political differences and negative feelings of those on the opposite side of the political divide, and this misperception can be reduced by informing them of...
30-Sep-2020 9:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Lockdown Led to 70% Drop in NYC COVID Spread, Masks Also Effective

Reducing contact rates contributed to around a 70 percent reduction in the transmission of COVID-19 in New York City during the spring pandemic wave. Widespread use of face coverings contributed an additional 7 percent reduction. The study led by...
14-Sep-2020 3:20 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Earns National Cancer Institute Renewal

The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center has been redesignated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the NCI, the federal government’s principal agency for cancer research, care and training.
26-Aug-2020 10:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

COVID-19 Fatality Risk Is Double Earlier Estimates: Study

In one of the most robust studies of COVID-19 mortality risk in the United States, researchers estimate an infection fatality rate more than double estimates from other countries, with the greatest risk to older adults. Columbia University Mailman...
1-Jul-2020 2:20 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Study Examines Limiting School Capacity for New York City Reopening

Data modeling projections by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health scientists evaluate potential policies to reduce new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in coming months, including by limiting school capacity by 50 percent or...
1-Jul-2020 2:15 PM EDT Add to Favorites

COVID-19 One-Step Saliva Test Is Born in Columbia Fertility Clinic

Columbia fertility experts have developed a one-step saliva test for COVID-19 that could expand access to testing.
18-Jun-2020 2:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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