One Virus, Few Treatments, Many Vaccines: An overview of global COVID-19 treatment and prevention

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IGHS Grand Rounds with Dr. Monica Gandhi

What COVID-19 vaccines are currently approved by the World Health Organization? Which ones are imminent? What are the differences between available vaccines? How well do they work? What do we know about the new Pfizer and Merck therapeutics for COVID-19 and their global availability?

Dr. Monica Gandhi answers these questions and more. Dr. Gandhi, the Director of the UCSF-Bay Area Center for AIDS Research and Associate Chief of the UCSF Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine will guide us through a discussion around the current global COVID-19 treatment and vaccine landscape.

Welcome from Dr. Paul Wesson, IGHS Associate Director for Science; introduction by Dr. Kelly Sanders, Technical Lead of the Pandemic Response Initiative; and, Q&A led by Dr. Lucia Abascal, PhD candidate.