Tip Sheets

Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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Bird flu in Antarctica: Scientists available to discuss disease spread, penguin behavior

February 1, 2024

Wildlife experts Amandine Gamble, Krysten Schuler and Gemma Clucas are available to discuss the risk posed by bird flu in Antarctica.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Omicron-specific vaccine may help, but expert urges trust in current boosters

January 25, 2022

Pfizer and BioNTech have begun a clinical trial for an Omicron-specific Covid-19 vaccine candidate. But Dr. Luis Schang, a virologist at Cornell University, says while it makes sense to develop a specific vaccine against Omicron, we should not lose sight of what is already available.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine
Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine
science

‘Not surprising’ new variants of coronavirus continue to emerge

October 21, 2021

The CDC confirmed a new Delta subtype – ‘AY.4.2.’ – has been identified for the first time in the United States after increasing frequency in the U.K. Health officials say it is still very rare.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine
Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Pfizer vaccine for kids may play ‘critical role’ in return to normalcy

March 31, 2021

Issac Weifsue, medical epidemiologist at Cornell University, says this new data could signal a shift in efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Reopening society pros outweigh risk from those vaccinated and unmasked

May 13, 2021

Luis Schang says the benefits of returning to a more open society now outweigh the marginal risk of vaccinated people not wearing masks and distancing.

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Immunologist: NY must expand, incentivize COVID vaccine distribution

January 5, 2021

Concern is growing given the sluggish rollout of the coronavirus vaccination distribution in New York. Cynthia Leifer, associate professor of immunology at Cornell University, says vaccines need to be given quickly as possible and rather than disqualifying sites from getting future distributions, expanding the number of distribution locations and incentivizing rapid use is a better solution.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine
Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine
New York State
New York City

Vaccine developers to heed FDA rules, despite White House

October 6, 2020

Colleen Carey, an expert health care economics and federal regulations of health care policy, says vaccine developers will likely follow FDA guidance despite the White House’s efforts to block it.

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

NYC hotspot interventions ‘wise’ — but are they too late?

October 6, 2020

On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered new restrictions on COVID-19 hot spots in New York City, including the closure of all private and public schools in the nine city ZIP codes with upticks in coronavirus transmissions. Isaac Weisfuse, a medical epidemiologist at Cornell University says the restrictions are a wise decision to stop the spread of coronavirus but is concerned the interventions may be too late.

New York City
New York State
Health, Nutrition & Medicine
Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

New CDC guidelines don’t cut need for masks, distancing

March 9, 2021

Isaac Weisfuse, medical epidemiologist at Cornell University, says coronavirus variants may threaten the efficacy of current vaccines and travelers should not assume it is 100 percent safe, even if vaccinated.

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Cornell experts available to discuss coronavirus vaccine

November 16, 2020

Cornell experts are available to discuss the potential of a coronavirus vaccine from multiple angles, including the science of vaccines, why people choose not to be vaccinated, health care systems, insurance companies and policies. 

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine