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An April 8 virtual town hall hosted by CUIMC and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital brought together community health workers and local leaders for another discussion regarding the COVID-19 vaccines.
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“It’s like coming back home! I spent quite a long time at Columbia,” she said of the opportunity to speak at one of her alma maters. During her presentation, Absalon offered an inside look at the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its corresponding vaccines and answered questions regarding the vaccines’ safety and overall efficacy. Vaccine hesitancy, mistrust, and the virus’s disprop
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New Amsterdam FC, a professional soccer team playing in the National Independent Soccer Association, has announced that Fruit Street Health will be its primary shirt sponsor for the Spring 2021 National Independent Soccer Association season. Fruit Street is a CDC-recognized telehealth provider of the National Diabetes Prevention Program which helps the individuals lose weight through virtual dietitian consultations. Fruit Street will also take a partial ownership stake in the club.
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NEW YORK, NY (April 16, 2021) SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, likely does not directly infect the brain but can still inflict significant neurological damage, according to a new study from neuropathologists, neurologists, and neuroradiologists at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. There s been considerable debate about whether this virus infects the brain, but we were unable to find any signs of virus inside brain cells of more than 40 COVID-19 patients, says James E. Goldman, MD, PhD, professor of pathology & cell biology (in psychiatry), who led the study with Peter D. Canoll, MD, PhD, professor of pathology & cell biology, and Kiran T. Thakur, MD, the Winifred Mercer Pitkin Assistant Professor of Neurology.
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Even without today’s well-timed announcement that Pete Davidson would be playing Joey Ramone in an upcoming biopic, the 20th anniversary of his death would not have gone unnoted. April 15 stands out as Tax Day to many (even though in 2021, that doomy occasion won’t occur until May), but for some, it looms even larger as as the day the punk-rock flag flies at half-mast. The leather jacket-donning Ramone, with his humorously bleak lyrical outlook, exaggerated mop-top, lean frame and gnarly vocals remains undiminished as an icon by the passing years now, as then, the very definition of a punk rock godfather.