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Speaker: Lone Simonsen, epidemiologist and Professor at the Department of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Denmark

Abstract

I will talk about the “signatures” of the COVID-19 experience, seen through the lens of historical pandemics, What allowed the SARS-CoV-2 virus to spread globally under the radar? Is it the first coronavirus pandemic we have been through? How deadly is it? Does the coronavirus have an Achilles heel that explains the ability to achieve pandemic control through draconic mitigation strategies? What about the global picture? And how will it all end?

Short bio

Lone Simonsen is a professor of population health sciences at RUC, and a research professor of Global Health at the George Washington U. in DC. She worked for 25+ years on infectious disease epidemiology at the US-CDC in Atlanta, the WHO in Geneva and the US-NIH in Bethesda. She leads PandemiX, a research effort supported by Carlsberg Foundation to model past and present pandemics. She is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences & Letters.

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