Confronting the COVID-19 Crisis

When COVID-19 came to NYC in the spring of 2020, most labs at Einstein were shut down, but we were allowed to keep working with half of our team, under the condition that we switched our entire program to the emergency COVID response. Thus, the ‘COVID Crew’ was born. Pretty soon, we were busier than we could ever have imagined …

Einstein Magazine features our work to ‘spike the coronavirus’ during those early, traumatic days of COVID-19.

PhD and MD/PhD students in our lab were key players in our response and their efforts are profiled in the same issue.

One year into the pandemic, I spoke with our Dean, Dr. Gordon Tomaselli, and my amazing colleagues at Einstein and Montefiore, Drs. Liise-anne Pirofski and Michelle Gong, about our involvement in the COVID-19 response at our institution, our experiences, and what we thought was to come.