COVID-19 Conference Session recordings and presentations

Opening

Special Session: Making sense of the science

COVID-19 and the Research Response
Dr Anthony S. Fauci, NIH/NIAID
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Pivoting the Covid-19 Prevention Paradigm: From Anxiety to Self-efficacy
Prof Salim Abdool Karim, CAPRISA
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COVID-19: Aligning Data and Implementation for Action
Amb Deborah L. Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator
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Impact of COVID-19 beyond health

COVID-19, a Mirror to Help Plan a Better Future
Mrs Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland
The Economics of a Pandemic
Profs Paolo Surico and Andrea Galeotti, London Business School
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From COVID-19 to COP-26: integrating climate action with pandemic recovery polices
Prof Sir Andrew Haines, LSHTM
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Food Insecurity and COVID-19: Amplifying Threats to Health
Prof Sheri Weiser, UCSF
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COVID-19, Societal Destabilization and Democracy in the Global South
Ms Laura Chinchilla, Former President of Costa Rica

Hope for change

COVID-19 and the environment
Dr Jane Goodall, the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

Impact of COVID-19 in the health sector

COVID-19 from a recovered healthcare worker’s perspective
Dr Andrea Calcagno, Università di Torino
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COVID-19 – Health Systems Challenges
Dr Michael Ryan, WHO
Anti-Black Racism and COVID-19 Inequities: Explaining the System, Exposing the Set-Up and Exploring the Solutions
Prof LaRon Nelson, Yale University
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Leave no one behind: protecting health of migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ms Reem Mussa, MSF
Community responses to COVID-19
Dr Khuat Thi Hai Oanh, SCDI
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Country policies and practices: Different pathways and similar intentions

Living with COVID-19: Lessons from other epidemics
Prof Peter Piot, LSHTM
Preparedness and response to COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea
Dr Seon Kui (Erica) Lee, KCDC
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Canada: Beyond the SARS Playbook
Dr Catherine Hankins, McGill University
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India presents many faces of the epidemic
Dr K Srinath Reddy, PHFI

Preparing for tomorrow

Amid two pandemics, the case for innovation and cooperation
Mr Bill Gates, BMGF

Closing

Abstract sessions

Track A: Basic science, pathogenesis, virology, immunology, inflammation

SARS-CoV-2 diversity is limited within hosts and following passage in cell culture
Katarina Braun, University of Wisconsin – Madison
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In-utero mother-to-child SARS-CoV-2 transmission – viral detection and fetal immune response
Claudio Fenizia, University of Milan
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COVID-19 aggravation in the second week of illness mirrors innate and adaptive immune defects
Camilla Tincati, University of Milan
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The peripheral blood immune cells profile in a cohort of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia
Maria Antonella Zingaropoli, Sapienza University of Rome
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Evidence of a significant secretory-IgA-dominant SARS-CoV-2 immune response in human milk following recovery from COVID-19
Rebecca Powell, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Track B: Clinical science, testing (RT-PCR and serologic) and diagnoses, natural history, clinical care, ARDS care, therapeutics

Characteristics and predictors of death among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Spain
Juan Berenguer, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón
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Risk and predictive factors of prolonged viral shedding in respiratory specimens in patients with COVID-19 admitted in an Italian reference hospital
Annalisa Mondi, National Institute for Infectious Diseases
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Sofosbuvir and daclatasvir as a potential candidate for moderate or severe COVID-19 treatment, results from a randomised controlled trial
Anahita Sadeghi, Tehran University of Medical Science
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Baseline characteristics associated with clinical improvement and mortality in hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 treated with remdesivir
Kristen Marks, Weill Cornell Medicine
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Covid-19 convalescent plasma donors demonstrate a wide range of antibody titers to highly specific anti-SARS-CoV-2 neutralization and receptor binding domain assays
Alena Markmann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Track C: Epidemiology, transmission dynamics, prevention, vaccines

Phylodynamics of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Spain
Francisco Diez-Fuertes, Hospital Clinic – IDIBAPS
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Detection and evaluation of time-space clusters for COVID-19 in Modena, northern Italy
Assunta Navarra, National Institute for Infectious Diseases -L. Spallanzani -IRCCS
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High prevalence of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection found in a Latinx population in San Francisco in a mass testing campaign
Gabriel Chamie, University of California, San Francisco
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Evaluating the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic: Adult depressive symptoms are associated with perceived risk of COVID-19 infection and childhood trauma in urban South Africa
Andrew Kim, University of the Witwatersrand
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Hotspots of COVID-19’s mortality in Mexico
Enrique Bravo-García, Spectrum: Educación, Salud y Sociedad, AC
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Track D: Public health responses including physical distancing and community level efforts, programmes, policies, lifting restrictions, modeling

A gender analysis of risk perception and precautionary behavior in response to COVID-19
Grace Yi, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a San Francisco shelter
Elizabeth Imbert, University of California, San Francisco
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NPI uptake and psychosocial impact of COVID-19 in Barbados: Implications for a second wave of infection
Clemon George, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
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Adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures in Somalia: A cross-sectional survey
Mohammed Ahmed, Mogadishu University
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The success of rapid response and nation-wide rollout of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs): A case study from Laos PDR
Kelley Gary Khamphouxay, Save the Children International/Lao PDR
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Track E: Social, economic, political, human rights impacts of the pandemic and the response

Psychosocial needs and associated support requirements of residents of long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium
Sofie Spiers, Médecins Sans Frontières
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Agile and adaptive community-based emergency response to COVID-19 among transgender, male and female sex workers in Thailand
Surang Janyam, SWING Foundation
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Declining trends in maternal and child health service use show that COVID-19 may be affecting essential health services in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Cara Endyke-Doran, Management Sciences for Health
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Establishing a community-based surveillance and education system to detect and contain the spread of COVID-19 among the Wayuú people
James Thomas, Baylor College of Medicine
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Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 admissions in a safety-net health system in Chicago
Luis Parra-Rodriguez, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County
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