ONLINE: The Global Race to Develop Vaccines and Treatments for COVID-19

The Asia Society Texas Center presents Texas Medical Center and global experts on efforts to develop vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus and COVID-19.

Description: "Epidemiologists have reported that a vaccine for COVID-19 will take 12-18 months to develop — and that is aspirational. On average, it takes 5-10 years and billions of dollars for a vaccine to reach the final approval to enter the market. The record so far is for the mumps vaccine, which took approximately four years from development to licensing. The vaccine development process includes three sequential phases of testing — a timeline that can be shortened but with some risk, as certain questions about COVID-19 remain unanswered before human testing, such as whether a person who has been infected with COVID-19 can be reinfected. In the meantime, there may be other technologies and innovations developed to treat the virus, including convalescent plasma therapy (transfusion of antibodies from a recovered patient) and anti-virals such as remdesivir, which has shown promise in reducing time to recovery for people hospitalized with advanced COVID-19.

"How do we manage our expectations regarding the development of the vaccine and other treatments? Where are we in the process? Join Asia Society Hong Kong and the Texas Center as experts discuss the global race to develop vaccines and treatments for COVID-19."

Speakers are Professor Honglin Chen of the University of Hong Kong and Dr. John P. Cooke of the Houston Methodist Research Institute.

This event will be held through YouTube and Facebook Live. Learn more and find the link to the event here:
https://asiasociety.org/texas/events/webcast-global-race-develop-vaccines-and-treatments-covid-19fbclid=IwAR1ML8F1U9voDAGFWVtX_DEWZySHlye6Z2MJ_raREnS4zIpa9eEeY0RwteA