Virtual VDC VLC*
*Vaccine LUNCH Club
May 4, 2022
← Click Here to Register
- Focus:
- Global Concerns
Tick, Tick, Tick
Covid Vaccines and Their (Waning?) Effectiveness
As We Enter Year 3
Minal Patel, MD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Co-Lead, Global Vaccine Effectiveness and Impact Workstream
World Health Organization
- Clubhouse Location:
- A Zoom screen near you
- Agenda: (all times Eastern time zone)
NOTE ATYPICAL MEETING TIME -
11:50am — Grab a sandwich and get online
NOON — Meeting called to order in the usual way (ear muffs optional)
12:10pm — This is the part where some really excellent science is presented
1:00pm — Q & A
1:15pm — Adjourn, already dreaming of next Fall's VDC season opener
Dear Vacineers,
Our speaker this month -- VDC member-in-good-standing Minal Patel -- will be Zooming in from Geneva, Switzerland and, to accomodate the time zone difference between me and she, it was either move the time of our meeting from dinner to lunch or ship a VDC speaker's mug to her, prefilled with hightest expresso, to keep Dr. Patel awake until cowbell time.
Given supply chain concerns it seemed safest to just move the meeting time, so set a calendar reminder NOW to attend this month's meeting of the Vaccine LUNCH Club.
A lot of things are waning these days:
- winter weather
- pine pollen season (at least in Georgia)
- general interest in resuming in-person work
- masking on airplanes
What about Covid? Is the pandemic waning or is just political interest in the pandemic? What about Vaccine Effectiveness? Is that waning too as the number of new variants and sub-variants outpaces new vaccine design?
Or ARE new Variants of Concern still nipping at our heels? Inquiring minds want to know!
Here are some of the way cool topics Dr. Patel will be covering in her talk on May 4th:
- What are the different types of covid vaccines used globally?
- What are Variants of Concern (VOC) and how effective are our current crop of vaccines against them?
- Why do we need vaccine efficacy (VE) studies?
- Are there Policy questions that VE studies can answer?
- What do we know about omicron and Son of Omicron
- How good are the current vaccines at keeping people from getting infected? From being hospitalized? From dying?
- How good are the vaccines at protecting people who have had Covid?
- Where are the gaping holes in our policies?
I know that you are not going to want to miss the FINAL VDC of the 2021-2022 Season so REGISTER NOW!
-Kimbi