Media Invited to Ask Questions – COVID-19 Testing, Drug Discovery, Infectiousness, and more: Press Conference April 2, 2020

Media: Please register here to join and ask questions

What: 

Media are invited to attend and ask questions at this Virtual Press Conference with a Newswise Live Expert Panel to discuss the COVID-19 crisis.

Topic: Testing, Drug Discovery, Infectiousness, and more. Italy is flattening the curve while the U.S. has become the epicenter. What have we learned about the virus and how will we know when the tide turns on the rates of infection? Is social distancing working? Are enough tests available to identify and isolate the infected? What have we learned about the virus surviving on surfaces and in the air? What mathematical models can help to predict the peak and hopefully the decline in new cases as time goes on? Is the end in sight?

Who:

1. Juan Dumois – Pediatric Infectious Diseases physician, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital 
2. Sumit Chanda – Director and Professor, Immunity and Pathogenesis Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
3. Brian Hedlund – Professor,  University of Nevada Las Vegas 
4. Eric Forgoston – Professor, Mathematical Sciences,  Montclair State University
5. Jessica Peck – Clinical Professor,  Baylor University School of Nursing

When: Thursday, April 2, from 2-3 PM EDT

Where: Newswise Live event space on Zoom – https://newswiselive.zoom.us/j/7459578068

Please register here

This live event will also be recorded and transcribed for use by media and communicators after it is concluded.

Members of the media will be invited to ask questions, with live video and audio, or through the chat, during this Expert Panel. If you have not used Zoom before, please install the plugin here https://zoom.us/download and then login to our Zoom meeting room to test your video and microphone here: https://newswiselive.zoom.us/j/7459578068.

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