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A Life-Changing Vaccine, If We Do It Right

Howard P. Forman
November 11, 2020

Pfizer’s announcement that its experimental COVID-19 vaccine appears to be more than 90% effective has provided hope for relief from the increasingly calamitous onslaught of the virus. We asked Yale SOM’s Dr. Howard Forman about next steps.
Building Blocks for Change

Judith Scimone
November 10, 2020

We talked to Judith Scimone ’00, chief talent officer at MetLife, about her path into workforce management and what she has learned in a year shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Delivering Holistic Healthcare in an Underserved Community

Suzanne Lagarde
November 03, 2020

Dr. Suzanne Lagarde ’14 describes how her federally qualified nonprofit health center is both adapting and expanding to meet new needs in an underserved community.
What Can Smartphone Location Data Tell Us about the Pandemic?

Kevin Williams
November 02, 2020

Yale SOM’s Kevin Williams and his co-authors used cellphone location data to create a data set tracking movement during COVID-19, which is publicly available for researchers.
Testing Sewage Can Provide an Early Warning of COVID-19 Outbreaks

Edward H. Kaplan Jordan Peccia
October 28, 2020

Earlier this year, a team of Yale researchers showed that the concentration of COVID-19 RNA in sewage mirrors the spread of the disease through a population. In a new study, they find that testing sewage can serve as an early indicator of an outbreak relative to hospitalizations.
During the COVID-19 Crash, Investors’ Beliefs Didn’t Match Their Behavior

Stefano Giglio
October 22, 2020

Despite a general wave of pessimism following the COVID-19 stock crash in March, few investors made significant changes to their portfolios, according to new research from Yale SOM’s Stefano Giglio.
The Art World in the Age of COVID
October 15, 2020

COVID created a crisis for the art world when museums, galleries, and art fairs were closed down. Is there reason for hope about what will emerge after the pandemic ends?
In Defense of (Mathematical) Models

Edieal J. Pinker
October 13, 2020

Epidemiological models have played an influential role in governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yale SOM’s Edieal Pinker takes a look back at one of the most influential models and argues that such rigorous efforts at understanding the likely course of the disease, while imperfect, are critical to good decision making.
How Is the Airline Industry Adapting to COVID?

Kevin Williams
October 08, 2020

Debilitated by COVID-19, airlines are preparing to cut more than 30,000 jobs as soon as next month. We asked Prof. Kevin Williams to explain some of the economics of air travel and how the industry can survive in an age of stay-at-home orders.
Adapting in India

Bikram Sohal
October 01, 2020

Bikram Sohal ’97, who began the year leading the Indian office of a global ad-tech company, describes the impact of COVID-19 in India, a country with deep ties to the global economy but where much of the economy is still informal.