Leslie Bienen

Dr. Bienen is a public-health professor at Oregon Health and Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health.

Recent Articles

College COVID-19 Restrictions No Longer Make Sense

Many of America’s roughly 20 million college students are (still) living with a wide range of restrictions on their lives. Some students face no restrictions—neither vaccination nor mask mandates—while others are subject to bouts of...

By Leslie Bienen and Vinay Prasad

Why COVID-19 Case Counts Don't Mean What They Used To As Omicron Hits

America has begun the gradual process of accepting that COVID-19 is going to be endemic—meaning it will always be present in the population to some degree—due to inherent properties of the virus (animal reservoirs, high...

By Monica Gandhi and Leslie Bienen
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