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About COVID-19

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause respiratory illnesses such as the common cold, and more severe illnesses such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and COVID-19. Coronaviruses commonly circulate in animals and sometimes also infect humans. More information here.

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Columbia Experts

Wafaa El-Sadr

Wafaa El-Sadr Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine

Craig Spencer Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine

Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences

Deliang Tang Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences

Terry McGovern Professor and Chair: Department of Population and Family Health

André C. d’Almeida Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs

News

July 23, 2021

How can Companies Regain Legitimacy in Chile?

Big Data Response Mechanism of Post-COVID-China Urbanization

Vaccine Development, Availability and Safety

This session focused on reviewing; the most promising candidate vaccines, the steps in the process from development to approval, and distribution and identify issues for future investigation.

Events

Jul28Wed

Vaccines and Variants: The Local and the Global in Covid Research

Online

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

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Videos

This was the second webinar Columbia Global Centers produced. This time we had the pleasure of interviewing professor William B. Eimicke da Columbia School of International and Public Affairs.

Columbia Business School hosted a discussion with Dean Emeritus Glenn Hubbard and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, moderated by Anthony Villamagna ’21, on the economic upheaval caused by the COVID-19 epidemic.

Could the outbreak peak soon? Can we determine the ultimate source of the virus? Is there a cure in sight? With these questions in mind, CGTN's Tian Wei talks to Walter Ian Lipkin, the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public He

Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP, co-hosted a special session at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, which was held virtually from Boston March 8-11

Podcasts

Dr. Stephen Morse, professor of epidemiology and director of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Certificate Program, is a globally recognized infectious disease expert who walks us through what we know so far about the origin of COVID-19.

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