QC #59 - COVID & Society - How to establish the best treatment for a new infectious disease?
Description
As the spread of the virus strains health care systems all over the world, medical scientists work at historic speed to find a solution. But how do you identify the best treatment during the early phases of a pandemic? Clinical microbiologist Prof Marc Bonten (UMC Utrecht) who specialises in epidemic diseases, explains what we can learn from current research on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The course 'COVID & Society' is brought by UMC Utrecht. Experts from different scientific areas teach us how we should be dealing with the outbreak from different perspectives. Watch these interdisciplinary webinars about the corona outbreak and its implications, with perspectives from the biomedical sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.