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RADx Webinar: The Epidemiology of COVID-19
What can we learn from this pandemic and from past pandemics, like HIV, to help us turn the corner on this one and prepare for the next one?
Fundamental epidemiologic knowledge of SARS-CoV-2 has been hard to produce at the pace needed to effectively control the pandemic. What can we learn from this pandemic and from past pandemics, like HIV, to help us turn the corner on this one and prepare for the next one?
Speaker:
Carolyn Williams PhD
Chief, Epidemiology, BSP
Division of AIDS
NIAID-NIH
When:
February 23, 2021 2:00PM ET
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