“If our results had been known two years ago, I doubt that anyone would have gone ahead” and tried it on embryos intended for pregnancy, said biologist Dieter Egli, who led the study.
"The trend line looks quite vertical," says Dr. Jessica Justman, an associate professor of medicine in epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
Dr. Catherine Monk is a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University and the director of the Women’s Mental Health @Ob/Gyn service at NYP/CUIMC.
“The recommendations have been to avoid mixing, or not to expose older people in your family to the virus,” said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, an epidemiology professor at Columbia University.
For more on the president's diagnosis and treatment, I spoke with Dr. Craig Spencer, Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center.
