Dr. Ian Lipkin, who directs Columbia University’s Center for Infection and Immunity, worked with actors in the 2011 film.
“I would just like to say on this show tonight that this has become very personal for me, too, because I have COVID as of yesterday. And this is miserable. [If] it can hit me, it can hit anybody,” he said.
The professor of has more than 30 years of experience in diagnostics, microbial discovery and outbreak response. According to hishe helped identify “West Nile virus as the cause of the encephalitis epidemic in New York in 1999” and has “discovered or characterized more than 500 infectious agents including Borna disease virus, West Nile virus, LuJo virus and human rhinovirus C.
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