Temple University Health System’s preparations for and treatment of patients amidst the coronavirus pandemic continue to be part of the media’s COVID-19 coverage.
- The Associated Press interviewed Tony S. Reed, MD, PhD, MBA, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Temple University Health System, for an article highlighting COVID-19 hospitalization numbers in the United States reaching their lowest levels since summer 2020 and what those low rates mean for hospital operations. National outlets such as Modern Healthcare, ABC News, Fox News, MSN.com, Yahoo! News and U.S. News & World Report and local sites including WHYY, the Philadelphia Tribune, KYW Newsradio and FOX29, picked up the AP article.
- In new research published in the journal JCI Insight, scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University show that responses to the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine differ significantly in individuals based on whether or not they were previously infected with COVID-19. Steven G. Kelsen, MD, Professor in the Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery at the Katz School of Medicine, is first author on the report. Additional media coverage was provided by PhillyVoice.
- Delana Wardlaw, MD, who practices at Temple Physicians, Inc. at Nicetown, her children, and her identical twin sister Dr. Elana McDonald spoke with People magazine for the publication’s “Why I’m Getting Vaccinated” series.
- A segment by CBS3 featured Dr. Wardlaw and her identical twin sister Dr. Elana McDonald and their work as the Twin Sister Docs during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, including their efforts to share medical education and build trust within the community.
- Dr. Wardlaw also spoke with 6ABC about the BA.2 variant, a slow uptick in COVID-19 cases and the recommendation by Philadelphia health officials to mask indoors again in public settings.
- Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, Senior Learning Specialist at the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, published an op-ed in Inside Higher Ed about how arguments pushing for a return to campus amid COVID-19 are flawed because they perpetuate the narrative that all students are uniformly young, able-bodied, and financially secure.