Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Division Chief, Infectious Diseases and Translational Medicine, Washington National Primate Research Center
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Abstract
Learning Objectives:
1. Vaccine discovery: Understand the different types of vaccines for COVID-19 in development and how they will work to protect from SARS-CoV-2
2. Vaccine development: Learn how clinical testing of COVID-19 vaccines could get shortened from 5-7 years to 1.5-2 years without compromising evaluation of their safety
3. Vaccine distribution: Learn what is meant by targeted vaccines, ring vaccination and herd immunity