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Mount Sinai to Begin the Transfer of COVID-19 Antibodies into Critically Ill Patients
The Mount Sinai Health System this week plans to initiate a procedure known as plasmapheresis, where the antibodies from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 will be transferred into critically ill patients with the disease, with the expectation that...
What You Need to Know About Social Distancing and COVID-19
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, people around the world have been asked—and at times directed by government officials—to practice social distancing. This public health term calls for avoidance of mass gatherings and maintaining a distance of six...
What Do Patients with Respiratory Illness Need to Know About COVID-19?
COVID-19 is a concern for everyone. But patients with respiratory illnesses are among those at highest risk of contracting this virus—or developing a bad case of it. Louis R. DePalo, MD, Clinical Director of the Mount Sinai-National Jewish...
How Front-Line Health Care Providers Can Keep Their Families Safe
As COVID-19 continues to have a dramatic impact around the globe, and front-line doctors, nurses, and health care staff are managing a growing number of cases, there is understandable anxiety.Waleed Javaid, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious...
COVID-19: What Transplant Patients Need to Know
As the outbreak of COVID-19 widens, transplant patients have some special concerns. Meenakshi M. Rana, MD, the Director of Transplant Infectious Disease, Mount Sinai Health System, shares her perspectives on what transplant patients need to...
I Am Diabetic. Am I At Increased Risk for COVID-19?
The novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 has upended the world. The entire country of Italy is on lockdown and Americans are being asked to stay indoors as much as possible, only venturing out for essential supplies like food and medicine. People with...