Rapid Testing for COVID-19: Does it Have a Role in COVID Control?

This event will feature Michael Mina and Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by the Harvard-Oxford Program in Epidemiology. Learn more about the mini symposium here. Register here. At 9:05am, Michael Mina will present "COVID-19 Testing: Where Science, Policy and Regulation Collide." At 10:00am, Marc Lipsitch will contribute as a discussant.

Testing times: modelling the impact of alternative testing strategies on the COVID-19 pandemic (ID Epi Seminar Series)

Presented by Dr. Nicholas Grassly, Professor in the Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London. Register for the event here. Dr. Grassly is interested in the individual immune response to vaccination – particularly for enteric infections such as enteroviruses (including poliovirus) and rotavirus – and how this translates to impact at the population level. Inevitably he is also working on the epidemiology of COVID-19, including testing and vaccination strategies,…