All Posts: Vaccine

• Statement from Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH, on FDA Approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine

  WASHINGTON (August 23, 2021) — Today, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved the two-dose COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Georgetown University Medical Center and former FDA Chief Scientist, shares the following comments: “In addition to evaluating the vaccine’s safety and efficacy in preventing COVID, FDA has […]

  Category: News Release Tags: COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, Vaccine

• Georgetown’s Jesse Goodman Leads Vaccine Analysis Team

  (May 7, 2021) — If you’ve read news stories this past year about COVID-19 vaccines in The Washington Post or The New York Times, for example, or have heard stories on NPR, the journalists’ reporting may well have been informed by input from a group of vaccine experts led by Georgetown infectious disease specialist Jesse […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, COVID-19, pandemic, public health, vaccination, Vaccine

• Clinical Students Volunteer With COVID-19 Vaccinations

  (February 19, 2021) — Since mid-January, more than 150 medical and nursing students at Georgetown have answered MedStar Health’s call for volunteers to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. Coordinated by Elizabeth Zolper (M’21), the students volunteer every day of the week at four MedStar Health locations around Washington, D.C.  Throughout this pandemic, students have contributed to […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, cura personalis, medical education, MedStar Health, School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies, Vaccine