“As awful as omicron was, it left in its wake a tremendous amount of immunity,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown's School of Public Health.
When it comes to deploying future vaccines, Jennifer Nuzzo, the founding director of the Pandemic Centre at Brown University, said "it's not the science that worries me as much: it's the production."
Jennifer Nuzzo — a professor of epidemiology and the director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health — told Truthout that, notwithstanding the risks inherent to congregate living settings, age has always been the biggest risk factor for severe illness and death from COVID.
"That's what's been most puzzling about China's approach to this virus," said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health, "because it's basically leaving wide open its biggest vulnerabilities."
In reality, lockdowns are "pause buttons," Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health, told Insider. "They're supposed to buy time to build up immunity in the population through vaccines," she said.
"I think it's a really worrisome situation looking to the weeks coming ahead," says Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist who runs the Pandemic Center at Brown University. Nuzzo's worried because an exhausted nation has abandoned many of the precautions people were taking to protect themselves and others. Flu vaccination rates are down by about 10% to 15% from previous years.
This article references commentary from Director of the Pandemic Center Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo during a panel discussion at the Kidney Week 2022 Conference on future pandemic preparedness.
"We have a lot more immunity in the population than we did last winter," says Jennifer Nuzzo, who runs the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health.
This article co-written by Jennifer Nuzzo states that public health laboratories need to have a voice in outbreak response planning, and past challenges must inform future efforts to effectively address emerging health threats in the United States.
In this opinion piece, Director of the Pandemic Center Jennifer Nuzzo weighed in on some of the questions New York Times readers have on how to navigate this phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this TED Talk, Jennifer B. Nuzzo unpacks how the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 sparked a cultural shift in how we defend against fires -- and explains why pandemics demand the same sort of reaction.