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NYC's New COVID Moment

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 10, 2022

This week Mayor Adams eased pandemic-era restrictions, lifting mask mandates in schools and vaccine requirements for restaurants and entertainment venues. Denis Nash, professor of epidemiology at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and executive director of CUNY’s Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, and Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, Columbia University Professor of epidemiology and medicine, and director of Columbia World Projects and ICAP, a global health center at the school of public health, talk about the public health challenges of this moment and take questions from listeners.

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