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COVID-19: UK Perspective On Variants, 3/4/21

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Overview:
This episode reviews the current news updates of this pandemic as well as recently updated guidelines and medical literature. Our moderator also has a discussion around the UK "Kent" variant, with Dr. Sharon Peacock, Director of the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium. In particular, they discuss transmissibility, clinical illness, deadliness, and how Americans should handle this variant.

Speakers:
- Sharon Peacock, CBE, FMedSci
- Jennifer Hanrahan, DO, MSc (moderator)
- Rebekah Wrenn, PharmD, BCIDP

Sources from news update:
https://terrance.who.int/mediacentre/presser/WHO-AUDIO_Emergencies_Coronavirus_Press_Conference_01MAR2021.mp3
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations
https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/covid-19-vaccines
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7009e4.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7009e3.htm?s_cid=mm7009e3_w
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777060
https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19/news/news/2021/2/new-policy-brief-calls-on-decision-makers-to-support-patients-as-1-in-10-report-symptoms-of-long-covid
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2776928

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