MEDIA ADVISORY
Date and Time: Monday, 28 December at 1700 CET (Geneva time) and we will update if necessary
Subject: 2020 Scientific advances related to COVID-19
The response to COVID-19 must be based on the latest scientific evidence and science-based guidance
From the beginning of the pandemic the world’s scientific community worked together with WHO on many fronts: understanding the disease, research and development of diagnostics, treatments and vaccines, improving patient care and helping people recover from the disease.
WHO values and rely on the contributions of the international scientific community and we are happy to host today some of the world’s leading scientists who have been working with WHO since the beginning of the pandemic.
Special guests:
- Professor David Heymann, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
- Dan Barouch, M.D., Ph.D, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States
- Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Associate Scientific Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research, South Africa
- Professor M.P.G. Koopmans, DVM PhD, Head department of Viroscience, The Netherlands
Join the press conference:
https://who-e.zoom.us/j/99911078361
Password: clinic@l
Join by phone:
Webinar ID: 999 1107 8361
Numeric Passcode for phone: 91678177
International numbers available: https://who-e.zoom.us/u/acsksJOWy1
NOTES FOR THE VPC
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Note that due to the volume of questions, we are no longer able to take them from phone callers and interpretation is not available via telephone.
