Ukraine's children are in trouble—and it's much more than their lives being at risk; it's the future of Ukraine itself. Children have been severely impacted by this unprovoked war. Hundreds of children have died in eastern or southern Ukraine since Feb. 24, and hundreds more have been injured – some severely.
Ukraine's Children Facing Russia's Unrelenting Invasion
Join Andy Revkin's Sustain What webcast to get the latest from Irwin Redlener, M.D., and Karen Redlener who is in Poland after his latest work in Lviv, Ukraine.
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COVID-19, Politics, and Social Vulnerability
How Trump’s World of BS Unleashed Today’s Delta Surge
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S PANDEMIC RESOURCE AND RESPONSE INITIATIVE & CHER ANNOUNCE DONATION OF MOBILE COVID-19 TESTING AND VACCINATION CLINIC
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Trump's Tulsa rally raises concerns it will inflame racial tensions, become a coronavirus 'super-spreader' event
According to state health department data, there are currently 9,354 confirmed coronavirus infections in Oklahoma, up 5.1 percent from the previous day. “It’s likely that an event like this, at this particular moment, is going to be a super-spreader event,” Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University told The Daily Beast. Anthony Fauci, a leading infectious disease expert and key member of the White House coronavirus task force, confirmed that he would not attend, given the choice, citing his own high-risk demographic as a 79-year-old man.
How coronavirus has created a new split in American life
“People are seeing this as a personal decision, and it’s based on our own personal risk tolerance,” said Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness and a professor of public health and pediatrics at Columbia University. “That’s not public health, because in public health, your risk should not be my risk.”
Could The Polio Vaccine Curb The Coronavirus Pandemic?
As a physician, my task is to keep people safe and as healthy as possible. Medicines, including vaccines, play a big role in this undertaking. However, almost equally dangerous as viral spread is the spread of false hope. To pacify expectations, I often turn to my public health colleague, Irwin Redlener, MD, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University: “Suggestions that oral polio vaccine may have a role in temporarily preventing Covid-19 are provocative, but not really supported by the kind of evidence that would make many of us optimistic.” Dr. Redlener was surprised by Dr. Fauci’s public support of OPV. “It’s far too early to suggest that OPV is some kind of miraculous, low-cost preventive measure,” added the professor of pediatrics.