Covid-19: Vaccines and Variants
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How does the virus spread, will the vaccines be effective, and will they protect us against new variants?
About this Event
Join us for this important discussion on the epidemiology and natural history of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, what the emergence of variants means for the vaccines, and how to tell if someone is protected.
Our speaker, Dr. Nick Wohlgemuth, is a virologist at St. Jude’s Children’s Research hospital and studies the cellular biology and pathogenesis of virus infections. During the COVID-19 pandemic he has started to investigate the utility of different serological assays at detecting COVID-19 infection.