Topic: infectious diseases
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Coronavirus Detective
Tulane virologist Robert Garry reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Virus Survives in Air for Hours
The Tulane National Primate Research Center leads a study on COVID-19 aerosols.
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The Virus and Vaccines
During the novel coronavirus global pandemic, the Tulane National Primate Research center goes all out to combat COVID-19, an infectious disease like no other.
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Health Equity
As the COVID-19 crisis engulfs the Black community, Thomas LaVeist, dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, explains why — and leads the way to changing the unjust health gap.
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Patricia Kissinger, professor of epidemiology and infectious diseases
“The addiction takes over." Patricia Kissinger, quoted in the Los Angeles Times article, “Two crises in one: As drug use rises, so does syphilis.” Kissinger is a professor of epidemiology and infectious disease at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.http://tulane.it/Patricia-Kissinger-latimes