Plenary talk: The Long and Short of COVID-19
You are invited to join Laureate Professor Peter Doherty, 1996 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, for his plenary talk at the IDEAL Research Hub annual forum.
Plenary talk: The Long and Short of COVID-19
Laureate Professor Peter Doherty takes us through the long and short of COVID-19.
You are invited to join Laureate Professor Peter Doherty, 1996 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, for his plenary talk at the IDEAL Research Hub annual forum.
Join us for this Zoom Meeting at 11am on 8 November.
Laureate Professor Peter Doherty
Abstract
Though we did not at first realize the scope of the problem, SARS-CoV- is unlike any virus we’ve had to deal with. At first, though we were saying ‘it’s not the influenza’, the medical and public health approach was more-or-less grounded in the idea that ‘this is a bad ’flu.
The fact that, unlike influenza in humans, this virus is also disseminated around the body in the blood, took a while to emerge, as did the reality that a major problem in COVID-19 is the formation of large and small clots that can cause heart attacks, strokes and block gaseous exchange in the lung. The fact that, within a year, we had outstanding vaccines to limit the toll of this disease is a major tribute to modern science. But it’s increasingly clear that the way this virus is changing to become more infectious is beyond our prior experience. We’ll focus on the nature of the disease what’s happening now and where this may be going. We are living with a fluid situation, and there are no certainties.
