Wednesday, July 8, 2020

COVID-19, As the First Wave Becomes a Tsunami: Conversation With a Biomedical Scientist


 
COVID-19, As the First Wave Becomes a Tsunami: 
Conversation With a Biomedical Scientist 
~ Gwilda Wiyaka ~
 With the onset of warmer weather and the lessening of restrictions, many of us thought we were home free – at least until fall, when the cold and flu season would return and, possibly, the second wave of COVID-19. Yet here we are, July 2020. Summer is just getting started and many states are reporting record breaking daily highs in new cases.

What is going on? Do we need to evolve our understanding of and approach to Covid-19? How will the pandemic ultimately impact the evolution or the continuation of humankind?

With us this hour is a gentleman we’ve had the pleasure of having on the show before, Dr. Dennis Carroll. Dr Carroll has been kind enough to come back on to discuss what to expect from the second wave of COVID-19. He has a doctorate in biomedical research, with a special focus in tropical infectious diseases, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was a Research Scientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory where he studied the molecular mechanics of viral infection. He has over 30 years of leadership experience in global health and development. Dr Carroll served as the Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Emerging Threats Division. Dr. Carroll was responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for the Agency's programs addressing new and emerging disease threats. He currently heads the Global Virome Project, an international partnership to build the systems and capacities to detect and characterize future viral threats.
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