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COVID-19 Vaccines and Herd Immunity

COVID-19 Vaccines and Herd Immunity

FromJAMA Author Interviews


COVID-19 Vaccines and Herd Immunity

FromJAMA Author Interviews

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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Dec 21, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

With coronavirus vaccines now available, what are the timeline and prospects for "herd immunity" and return to a new normal? Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health returns to JAMA's Q&A series with Paul D. Biddinger, MD, director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Disaster Medicine, to discuss. Recorded December 17, 2020. Related Article(s): COVID-19 Vaccines and Herd Immunity The Ethics of Continuing Placebo in SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Trials Evaluating SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines After Emergency Use Authorization or Licensing of Initial Candidate Vaccines Herd Immunity and Implications for SARS-CoV-2 Control Herd Immunity as a Coronavirus Pandemic Strategy
Released:
Dec 21, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Interviews with leading researchers and thinkers in health care about practice-changing research, innovations, and the most pressing issues facing medicine and health care today from JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.