A Look Back at the Pandemic, and Views on the Future
Mar 6, 2025
In early 2020, Mount Sinai treated the first COVID-19 patient. Shortly after that, New York State declared a state of emergency, and COVID-19 cases started to rise. Mount Sinai staff are coming together to share their experiences of overcoming the pandemic in a look...
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Updated on Mar 3, 2025
Before COVID-19 was even formally recognized as a pandemic, David L. Reich, MD, President of The Mount Sinai Hospital, was hearing from his anesthesiologist peers in Europe about a terribly problematic “respiratory disease” with a high mortality rate.“This trusted...
read more Five Years Post-Pandemic: Here’s What We’ve Learned About Long COVID
Updated on Feb 24, 2025
The year 2025 marks five years since the COVID-19 pandemic went global. Among the many who contracted COVID-19 and recovered from the acute infection, some feel as though the disease has changed their day-to-day health for the worse. Many report a “brain fog” in which...
read more A Patient Story: Living With Long COVID
Updated on Feb 25, 2025
World-renowned cellist Joshua Roman blends performance and storytelling to share his experience with long COVID he emerged with a profound acceptance of who he is, and a deeper understanding of what it takes to deal with a mysterious medical challenge. In a video...
read more The Latest on COVID-19: What to Know About Testing
Updated on Sep 29, 2023
The Biden administration recently announced that it is making four more COVID-19 antigen tests, also known as rapid tests, available to each U.S. household for the fall of 2023. You can order your tests through the federal government’s COVID.gov website. A positive...
read more How to Protect Yourself From COVID-19, Flu, and RSV This Fall
Updated on Sep 13, 2023
Respiratory viruses, such as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), tend to pick up during fall. On top of that, COVID-19 is still circulating, with cases increasing in recent weeks. To fight off what some are calling a “tripledemic” of all three viruses,...
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