COVID-19: Learning from the Past, Defining our future

 

A year after much of America shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many mixed signals about the year ahead. Case numbers and deaths remain painfully high, yet schools and businesses are reopening and people are eager for a return to “normal”. Vaccines have been authorized, but access to them remains deeply inequitable—yet another example of the longstanding health disparities brought to light over the last year.

 

Many possible futures lie ahead, but which one we inherit will depend largely on decisions individuals and institutions make in the coming months. Find out from two expert panelists how those pivot points could define our collective future, and get science-informed perspectives on what COVID’s second year may bring.

 

Dr. Michael Osterholm, Regent’s Professor in Public Health and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at University of Minnesota

Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Morehouse School of Medicine and past president of the American Public Health Association.