More about the YSPH Covid-19 Pandemic Response
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Yale and Columbia universities today unveiled an interactive map that guides policy makers and the public in deploying health care workers to communities most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- October 26, 2020
A new vaccine advisory committee created by Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont taps four experts from the Yale School of Public Health to help guide the state in the coming weeks and months in anticipation of a vaccine for COVID-19.
- October 08, 2020
A team of epidemiologists at the Yale School of Public Health and the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health have created a series of models that show in real-time the latest COVID-19 levels county by county throughout the United States.
- October 02, 2020
When the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 was raging across America last April, NBA officials were frantically searching for a fast, easy and affordable way to test players and save the 2020 basketball season.
- September 24, 2020Source: YaleNews
Three independent laboratories will now join Yale Pathology Labs as facilities authorized to perform the university-developed SalivaDirect™ COVID-19 test. The laboratories will make SalivaDirect™ available to people in Florida, Minnesota, and New York.
- September 16, 2020Source: Story Map on ArcGIS
Outbreaks of any disease, including COVID-19, within correctional systems have substantial public health repercussions, affecting not only those incarcerated but also those who work in facilities and, by extension, both the communities in which jails and prisons sit and the communities to which released individuals return.
- September 09, 2020
Connecticut is emerging from the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in relatively good shape. But the threat is not over, Governor Ned Lamont cautioned during a panel discussion hosted by the Yale School of Public Health.
- September 03, 2020
As businesses and schools tentatively reopen during an ongoing pandemic, scientists at the Yale School of Public Health have developed a new method to determine whether someone has COVID-19.
- July 29, 2020
Dr. Harvey Risch is a distinguished cancer epidemiologist who has opined on the topic of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and COVID-19 out-patient therapy. He has written a review article in the American Journal of Epidemiology that cites evidence that he believes supports HCQ use for out-patient infection with SARS-CoV-2. Studies that indicate no effect or harmful effects, Dr. Risch believes, enrolled patients too sick to benefit from HCQ.
- July 02, 2020
7.2.2020 "COVID-19 Right Now" featuring Unni Karunakara, MBBS, MPH'95, DrPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Public Health; and James Hamblin, MD, MPH'18, Lecturer in Health Policy and Management.
