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On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered new restrictions on COVID-19 hot spots in New York City, including the closure of all private and public schools in the nine city ZIP codes with upticks in coronavirus transmissions. Isaac Weisfuse, a medical epidemiologist at Cornell University says the restrictions are a wise decision to stop the spread of coronavirus but is concerned the interventions may be too late.

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Victoria Beard, professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University and expert on how planners need to address urban inequality and poverty, is available for interviews about the long-standing infrastructure problems compounding India’s management of COVID-19.  

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As the nation looks to re-open, contact tracers will be needed to track and halt the spread of COVID-19. Gen Meredith, an expert in public health assessment, intervention development and workforce capacity building explains contact tracing and its importance.

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New York City

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Medical epidemiologist Isaac Weisfuse, says that while in-home testing will help reduce the potential risk for transmission, there is still a critical need for contact tracing.

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Sahara Byrne, communications experts who studies when and why youth resist campaigns, interventions and policies designed to protect them from engaging in risky behaviors; says parents should pay close attention their teens' symptoms. 

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K-12 schools across the country are closing or moving to online education to help control the spread of the coronavirus. Jamila Michener, assistant professor of government says during times of public health crisis the consequences of inequalities surface and it’s going to be a huge challenge to support K-12 students facing school closures at home and also in their communities. 

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

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Alan Mathios, who studies the effectiveness of proposed cigarette package warning labels on smoking onset and quit behavior, reacts to the announcement that investigators in 39 states will look into Juul Labs' youth marketing practices.

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Virology expert Gary Whittaker, who studies the coronavirus, says while the virus is spreading rapidly, good public health measures will limit further contagion. 

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International

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Steve Osofsky, wildlife health and health policy expert, says emerging diseases like coronavirus are coming from Chinese "wet markets," and it is time to shut them down. 

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On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Medicine to Drs. William G. Kaelin Jr., Gregg L. Semenza and Peter J. Ratcliffe for their work on oxygen levels and the body’s cells.  Richard Cerione, professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, studies cellular pathways that influence various biological outcomes, including cancer progression. He says the scientists’ findings have important implications for our understanding of cancer cells’ behavior.

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