"Attention to food environment in this high-risk population is of the utmost importance," wrote editorialists Elissa Driggan and Ersilia DeFilippis, both of Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Editor's Note: David Rosner, a co-author of this opinion piece, is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health.
The study’s importance “cannot be overstated,” said Dr. Richard Mayeux, an Alzheimer’s specialist at Columbia University who wasn’t involved in the research.
"We actually have another option for keeping our patients safe and minimizing their allergic reactions to foods," Joyce Yu, an associate professor of pediatrics at Columbia University, told USA TODAY.
Lucky Tran, a science communicator at Columbia, called the potential end of five-day isolation periods “a reckless anti-public-health policy that goes against science and encourages disease spread.”
Betsy Ladyzhets spoke to Melissa Stockwell, a pediatrician and public health researcher at Columbia University who was one of the lead authors on the study and helps lead RECOVER’s pediatric research.
The study was designed to provide more comprehensive data about homicide rates among Black women, said Bernadine Waller, the paper’s lead author and a research fellow at Columbia University.
“To find that Black women were murdered at a rate of six times that of white women was really pretty shocking,” says lead study author Bernadine Waller, a research fellow at Columbia University.
“We're behind in people understanding and really recognizing that [long COVID] does actually happen in children,” said Dr. Melissa Stockwell of Columbia University, who co-authored the report.
"The pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health of adult Americans," the study's lead author, Dr. Mark Olfson, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, told UPI.
