COVID Transmission: A Scientist’s Insight on What Matters
/0 Comments/in COVID Health, COVID Podcasts, Featured, Healthcare, Podcast Hubwonk, rCOVID /by Editorial StaffJoin Joe Selvaggi and Pioneer Institute co-host Bill Smith as they talk with Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Ed Nardell about his scientific observations on how the novel coronavirus is spread and what can be done to make our schools, buildings, and lives in public safer.
Guest:
Dr. Ed Nardell is a professor in the Departments of Medicine and of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate professor in the Departments of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research interests involve the control of tuberculosis under resource-limited conditions, with a focus on the pathogenesis of drug-resistant tuberculosis, its airborne transmission, and transmission control in institutions. Another long-standing research avenue is the application of germicidal irradiation to reduce airborne transmission.
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