Sydney Gray
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sydney.gray@yale.edu
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SYDNEY GRAY, BEATRIZ HORTA & MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Yale IMPACT team compiles biorepository of COVID-19 patient samples for study

As the coronavirus first started to spread across the globe last March, Yale experts came together to build a biorepository — or library — of […]

February 19, 2021

SYDNEY GRAY & MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Yale experts comment on threat of COVID-19 variants and staggered immunization rates

With a rise in the number of new coronavirus variants around the world, Yale scientists have expressed increasing concern about how the mutations they carry […]

February 11, 2021

SYDNEY GRAY & NICOLE RODRIGUEZ
Epidemiologists, coaches examine possibility of Ivy League spring sports

Despite pressure from current and former Ivy League athletes to start the spring athletic season, the Ivy League remains the only NCAA Division I conference […]

February 10, 2021

SYDNEY GRAY
Yale study finds link between autism in children, premature birth of their parents

Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, in children may be linked to the premature birth of their parents, according to a Yale School of Public Health […]

February 8, 2021

SYDNEY GRAY
Shorter quarantines with careful testing may be more effective than two-week isolation, Yale study finds

Appropriately timed testing can make a seven-day quarantine more effective than a 14-day quarantine in preventing the spread of COVID-19, according to a Yale School […]

February 5, 2021

SYDNEY GRAY
Yale professors disagree with federal and state COVID-19 vaccine distribution plans

With information about the COVID-19 vaccine flooding the national discourse, two Yale professors penned an op-ed for the New York Times last month outlining their […]

February 3, 2021

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO & SYDNEY GRAY
Yale’s COVID-19 vaccination outreach addresses vaccine hesitancy, accessibility issues

Targeting vaccine hesitancy and accessibility barriers within local communities has been an important part of the COVID-19 vaccination strategies of Yale, New Haven and Connecticut.  […]

February 3, 2021

SYDNEY GRAY & ROSE HOROWITCH
Two cases of highly contagious UK coronavirus variant identified in New Haven County

Yale researchers have identified two unlinked cases of the highly transmissible B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant in New Haven County. On Thursday, the Grubaugh Lab at Yale […]

January 9, 2021

SYDNEY GRAY
New YSPH study to examine dengue transmission in Brazil

Professor Albert Ko sets the scene: Researchers in the back of cars and motorcycles they shipped into the area after perusing many a motorcycle shipping […]

December 4, 2020

SYDNEY GRAY
Anthony Fauci to serve as 2021 YSPH Commencement speaker

Anthony Fauci is set to speak at the Yale School of Public Health Commencement ceremony.  YSPH Dean Sten Vermund wrote in an email to the […]

December 3, 2020

SYDNEY GRAY
Yale researchers develop website monitoring COVID-19 spread using wastewater data

Scientists at the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science have recently released a website that tracks the spread of COVID-19 using data collected from […]

November 20, 2020