COVID-19: What We Know Today: Recent Episodes
International Antiviral Society–USA
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need for reliable scientific information. Our understanding of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 disease changes almost daily. Unfortunately, there are also misunderstandings, miscommunications, and controversies. In response, the IAS−USA has created a program that will bring together leading experts to discuss the latest science regarding COVID-19 and what the data and research are telling us about the basic science, public health, and clinical aspects of the disease and the consequences of the pandemic.
Drs Michael S. Saag (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and Robert T. Schooley (University of California San Diego) go over COVID-19 treatment and vaccine research.
Drs Monica Gandhi, MD (University of California San Francisco) and Rajesh Gandhi (Harvard University) discuss highlights from the recent AIDS 2020 and COVID-19 Conferences of the International AIDS Society; treatment, prevention, and transmission updates in COVID-19; and the impacts of HIV on COVID-19 and COVID-19 on HIV.
Drs Wendy Armstrong, MD, and Carlos del Rio, MD (Emory University) go over the effects of COVID-19 in people with HIV, with a focus on health disparities.
Drs Judith S. Currier, MD (University of California Los Angeles) and Jeanne M. Marrazzo, MD (University of Alabama at Birmingham) discuss recent updates in COVID-19 in womxn. Please keep in mind that COVID-19 information changes rapidly and the information in this podcast has a limited shelf life.
Drs George Rutherford, MD, and Paul A. Volberding, MD, of University of California San Francisco, discuss recent updates in public health and screening of COVID-19. Please keep in mind that COVID-19 information changes rapidly and the information in this podcast has a limited shelf life.