Good primer and updates on COVID-19 vaccine development and JAMA links.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

From the Journal of the American Medical Association YouTube channel:

Coronavirus Vaccines - An Introduction
•Oct 2, 2020

(10-minutes)

Leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates rely on new technologies that have fast-tracked development and testing. Vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna have completed early phase 3 clinical trials and are reportedly under review at the US FDA for emergency use authorization (EUA) although safety surveillance continues. This video explains the principles underlying the leading DNA, messenger RNA (mRNA), and viral vector vaccine candidates, and how they might induce immunity to SARS-CoV-2 infection.

and, more recently - Coronavirus Vaccine Update With Paul Offit
Streamed live on Dec 2, 2020

(30-minutes)

With the Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccines reportedly under review at the US FDA for emergency use authorization (EUA), Paul A. Offit, MD of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, returns to JAMA's Q&A series to provide an update on what to expect, prospects for vaccine rollout and distribution in the coming months, and ongoing safety surveillance. Recorded December 2, 2020.

JAMA's YouTube video page: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheJAMANetwork/videos

JAMA's main web site coronavirus page: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Link: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/coronavirus-alert

Fall 2020 is seeing continued global spread of COVID-19 with uncertainties about the effects of school reopenings on transmission and the prospects for dual COVID-19 and influenza outbreaks heading into colder months. Vaccine trials are heading into phases 2 and 3, and the FDA’s earlier-year reliance on emergency use authorizations (EUAs) under perceived political pressures to deliver pandemic solutions is raising concerns about the integrity of approval processes for vaccines potentially offered to millions of otherwise healthy people.

Browse the JAMA Network COVID-19 collection below, including Q&A's with NIAID's Anthony Fauci, an interactive map of the outbreak courtesy of The Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, and past publications on vaccine development, infection control, and public health preparedness.

This update video will be cross-posted to the Video & Multimedia Forum.


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