Asymptomatic: the silent spread of COVID-19 and the future of pandemics
Exploring the asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19, its consequences, and lessons for future public health responses.
This talk explores asymptomatic transmission and its consequences. In the first part, I revisit competing narratives of the COVID-19 threat and explain via models and epidemic data how SARS-CoV-2's ability to silently spread between individuals made it catastrophic for society as a whole.
In the second part of the talk, I look ahead as a means to leverage lessons learned from model-informed interventions to improve public health readiness and response.
Throughout, I argue that confronting future pandemic threats to public health and socioeconomic well-being depends on stopping transmission - even when individuals feel fine.
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Joshua S. Weitz
Joshua S. Weitz is a Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland, USA where he holds the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics. He directs an interdisciplinary group focusing on understanding how viruses transform the fate of cells, populations, and ecosystems.
Weitz is the author of multiple books and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a Simons Foundation Investigator in Theoretical Physics of Living Systems.
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