Saturday, October 10th, 2020
Special Edition: The Race for a Vaccine
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Today we’re talking about the race for a COVID-19 vaccine. We discuss how the potential vaccine candidates are being evaluated for safety and effectiveness, even in record time, which groups of people are not included in the trials right now, and much more.
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Guest:
Angela Rasmussen
Dr. Angela Rasmussen is a virologist at Columbia University. She uses systems biology techniques to interrogate the host response to viral infection. She has studied a huge range of viral pathogens, from the “common cold” (rhinovirus) to Ebola virus to highly pathogenic avian influenza virus to SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19. By combining current classical approaches to modeling infection and pathogenesis with sequencing technology and machine learning, Dr. Rasmussen and her colleagues and collaborators have identified new host mechanisms by which viruses cause disease.
Read more: STAT News