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Dr. W. Ian Lipkin is an infectious disease expert at Columbia University who is fresh out of quarantine after traveling to China, where he was studying the c...
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Mar 4, 2020 · Dr. W. Ian Lipkin is an infectious disease expert at Columbia University who is fresh out of quarantine after traveling to China, where he was studying the coronavirus outbreak. The virus has...
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Mar 25, 2020 · On March 24, Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, announced that he has tested positive for coronavirus. Like so many New Yorkers, he acquired the virus through community transmission. He has had mild symptoms thus far, and he is currently in quarantine at home.
- How We Got Here
- The Coronavirus at A Crossroads
- America’s Role
- System Reboot
- Finishing The Job
COVID-19 hit at an inauspicious geopolitical moment. An era of rising nationalism and populism made it frustratingly difficult to mount a collaborative response to a global pandemic. Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Xi Jinping of China, Narendra Modi of India, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, a...
Over a year and a half into the pandemic, it has become clear that the race to contain the virus is simultaneously a sprint and a marathon. Yes, the world needs to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible to slow the spread of the virus. But if every human on the planet were vaccinated tomorrow, SARS-CoV-2 would still live on in ...
As a wealthy, powerful, and scientifically advanced country, the United States is optimally positioned to help lead the long fight against COVID-19. To do so, the country must recover its reputation for global public health leadership. At a time of resurgent nationalism at home and abroad, it will need to rise above the forces of division and rally...
Even though the United States must play a leading role in getting this pandemic under control, that will not be enough without efforts to reform the global framework for pandemic response. The current system is broken. For all the debates about who should have made what decisions differently, a simple fact remains: what began as an outbreak of a no...
COVID-19 is not yet the worst pandemic in history. But we should not tempt fate. The past year and a half revealed how globalization, air travel, and the growing proximity between people and animals—in a word, modernity—have made humanity more vulnerable to infectious diseases. Sustaining our way of life thus requires deep changes in the way we int...
- Larry Brilliant
|. Spring/Summer 2020. W. Ian Lipkin. (Joshua Bright / The New York Times / Redux) In late January, when most Americans were hearing about the novel coronavirus for the first time, the Columbia epidemiologist W. Ian Lipkin was in Beijing, advising the Chinese government on its response.
Feb 12, 2020 · February 12, 2020. 6 min read. Epidemiologist Veteran of SARS and MERS Shares Coronavirus Insights after China Trip. Columbia University professor W. Ian Lipkin looks for lessons from the...
Feb 17, 2020 · Dr. W Ian Lipkin, known as a "master virus hunter" who helped fight the SARS outbreak, was invited to study the coronavirus in China and went under quarantine after returning to the US....
