Webinar #2 - Understanding the Disease: Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Global Populations
Webinars #1 and #2 provide information that allows audience members to better understand COVID-19 and its impacts. Webinar #2 focuses on the broader impacts to populations and society.
Time
This webinar was broadcast live on Wednesday, May 6, 2020.
The recording is now available.
Agenda
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Roundtable Discussion: Panel members engaged in a robust scientific discussion looking at likely scenarios for how COVID-19 will manifest throughout the globe over the course of the next several months to years. We explored this topic because a deeper understanding could provide some sense of certainty to businesses making short, medium, and long-term decisions. The discussion included tactical methods of disease control as well as longer-term strategies for effectively eliminating the threat of COVID-19. Topics included:
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Testing
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Contact Tracing
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Electronic Surveillance
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Social Distancing
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Quarantines
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Targeted Methods of Exposure Mitigation
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Pharmaceutical & Medical Treatments and Interventions
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Vaccines
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Herd-Immunity
III. Conclusions and Next Steps
Speakers
KULMEET DANG
Emergency Medicine Physician
Huntington Memorial Medical Center
MARC GURWITH
Chief Medical Officer / Consultant
Verndari
SANJAY BALIGA
Founder & Senior Partner
Vichara Partners