What Older Adults and Their Families Need to Know About COVID-19
A leader in geriatric medicine, R. Sean Morrison, MD, the Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, shares information that older people and...
How Should Pregnant People Protect Themselves From COVID-19?
The rapidly changing health advisories surrounding COVID-19, the novel coronavirus causing a pandemic, can be confusing. While the elderly and those with severe respiratory illness have been highlighted as high risk populations, the question remains as to...
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...
Telehealth Aids in Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
As the COVID-19 spreads throughout the New York area, the Mount Sinai Health System is making it easier—and safer—to get care.Mount Sinai Now telehealth services offer several ways to get care remotely. You don’t have to worry about crowded public transit...
What do Cancer Patients Need to Know about COVID-19?
COVID-19 is a concern for everyone. But cancer patients are among those at highest risk of contracting this virus--or developing a bad case of it. This is because most cancer patients have immune systems that have been weakened by cancer and its...