“The period of life spent not healthy is getting larger and larger and the implications of that are enormous,” says Dr. John Rowe, a professor of health policy and aging at Columbia University.
Neil A. Shneider, director of the Eleanor and Lou Gehrig ALS Center, said that New York was well positioned to advance A.L.S. research because of the number of specialized centers in the state.
Editor's Note: Qixuan Chen, a co-author of the study referenced here, is an associate professor of biostatistics at the Mailman School of Public Health.
Lucky Tran, Ph.D., science communicator at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, compiled the CDC data into a graph, which has been shared widely on Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter.
Some experts say maintaining a healthy weight is important for longevity, but to John Rowe, a professor of health policy and aging, that’s less of a concern, especially as people enter old age.
“For those who were recently infected or boosted, the cross-protection against JN.1 should be decent,” said David Ho, a virologist at Columbia who led the research on JN.1 and Covid vaccines.
A big draw of the implant is that getting it is less painful than an IUD and “no pelvic exam is required,” said Paula Castaño, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University.
“It would suggest that those people who were not recently boosted probably would not be well-protected against JN.1," said David Ho, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University.