John McConnell, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, provides an update for researchers and clinicians on the latest scientific data available on COVID-19 vaccines and more.
In this webinar, John covers:
• Effectiveness of vaccines in preventing disease, including virus variants
• Vaccine safety – reactogenicity, anaphylaxis, clotting disorders, Bell’s palsy
• What vaccines are available and their mechanisms of action
• The path to making vaccines available worldwide
• How has the pandemic affected the research landscape?
About the presenter:
John McConnell studied clinical microbiology and parasitology at the University of East London, before spending 6 years researching septic-shock-related topics at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London (now part of Imperial College London). He joined The Lancet in 1990 as a peer-review editor before becoming the first Web Editor in 1996. In 2001, John was the founding editor of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. He has appeared as an expert commentator on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News, Al Jazeera, CNBC, CNN, and CCTV America. In the past year, The Lancet Infectious Diseases has published some of the most impactful research on COVID-19.