News by Year - 2021

Schools weigh vaccine and mask mandates as students prepare to return

Post Date: 
2021-08-09
Source: 
CNBC
Schools weigh vaccine and mask mandates
Dr. Robert Bollinger: ″We’ve had mandates for vaccinations in schools for over 100 years. Vaccine mandates are nothing new.”

Here’s where return-to-office plans stand now

Post Date: 
2021-08-04
Source: 
CNBC
return-to-office plans
Dr. Bob Bollinger: "This is an unprecedented, once-in-a-century public health emergency, and things are, unfortunately, in flux.”

COVID vaccination rate for NYC municipal workforce lags behind city’s total as thousands scoff at shots

Post Date: 
2021-07-29
Source: 
New York Daily News
COVID vaccination rate
Dr. Bob Bollinger was interviewed for this article

COVID-19 Variants and Vaccine Mandates

Post Date: 
2021-07-29
Source: 
YouTube
Dr. Robert Bollinger
Leslie Marshall is joined by Dr. Bob Bollinger, the Raj and Kamla Gupta Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Indonesia: Raging pandemic offers fertile ground for new variants

Post Date: 
2021-07-23
Source: 
Al Jazeera
New Variants
Al Jazeera: Dr. Robert Bollinger weighs in on the potential for new COVID-19 variants, particularly in areas where case numbers are high.

Global Coronavirus Pandemic

Post Date: 
2021-07-16
Source: 
The World Tonight. Black News Channel
The World Tonight, Black News Channe l: Dr. Amita Gupta discusses the challenges associated with COVID vaccination in low and middle income countries.

How we solved COVID

Post Date: 
2021-07-13
Source: 
Readers digest
Dr. Robert Bollinger
Dr. Robert Bollinger: "Such fast development of tests and vaccines are a clear example of the collaboration between scientists and the importance of public investment."

Are COVID-19 symptoms different if I’m infected with the Delta variant?

Post Date: 
2021-07-13
Source: 
Los Angeles Times
Dr. Robert Bollinger
Dr. Bollinger: "People getting infected now are a lot younger than they were with the earlier variants, because the older people are vaccinated at a much higher rate."

CURE ID Moves to Automated Data Collection in Light of COVID Pandemic

Post Date: 
2021-07-13
Dr. Matt Robinson
Drs. Matt Robinson is leading JHU efforts in this FDA program, and Robert Bollinger and Jane McKenzie-White helped launch it before COVID.

Johns Hopkins Students and Faculty Members Confront India’s COVID-19 Crisis

Post Date: 
2021-07-08
Source: 
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Dr. Amita Gupta
Dr. Amita Gupta: “If India is not safe, the world’s not safe. COVID anywhere affects us everywhere, and so we can’t lay down the guard.”

Proceedings of IMPAACT Annual Meeting 2021 Now Online

Post Date: 
2021-06-30
Source: 
impaactannualmeetings.org
IMPAACT
View video presentations from this year’s annual meeting, highlighting the latest updates and exciting science in the field.

7 Lessons We’ve Learned From This Pandemic to Remember for the Next One

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Self
Dr. Amita Gupta
Dr. Amita Gupta: "We aren’t going to be able to treat our way out of disease. We need to prevent more infections from happening."

Why India’s COVID-19 data is vastly undercounted

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Gruntstuff
Dr. Amita Gupta: “We care from a humanitarian perspective, a public well being perspective and a well being safety perspective.”

A Blueprint for Preventing Another Pandemic

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Time
Dr. Amita Gupta
TIME polled 73 experts on how to mitigate the next health crisis. The responses offer a plan to build a more prepared world.

Ask The Doctor

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Twitter
Vikram Chandra, Founder, Editorji Technologies interviews Dr Amita Gupta, Dr Vincent Rajkumar, and Dr Aju Mathew.

A vaccinated person's guide to the most concerning COVID-19 strains

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Salon
Dr. Robert Bollinger
Dr. Robert Bollinger. "Flu viruses are particularly prone to mutation, which is why new strains circulate every year."

Do Vaccine Incentives Work? Krispy Kreme Says The Freebies Helped

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Eminetra
Dr. Robert Bollinger
Dr. Bollinger: “It depends on what barriers people have when they get vaccinated. The higher those barriers, the harder it is to overcome."

Videos claiming vaccination efforts are causing new COVID-19 variants are fake

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Dunya News
Dr. Robert Bollinger
Dr. Bollinger: "Compared to unvaccinated people, vaccinated people are less likely to get infected by all of the strains, including the variants."

Data-driven COVID-19 care

Post Date: 
2021-06-21
Source: 
HUB
Dr. Matt Robinson
Dr. Matt Robinson: "It makes it easier for clinicians to anticipate what will happen to patients and helps them focus on patients who are the sickest."

Global crisis in the making

Post Date: 
2021-06-10
Source: 
Daily News
As countries around the world airlift oxygen, vaccines and medical supplies to India, they are also closing their borders to the world’s second most populous country.

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