Department of Medicine Grand Rounds - Covid-19: How Should We Handle the Schools, and the Challenges of Vaccine Distribution

Covid-19: How Should We Handle the Schools, and the Challenges of Vaccine Distribution

Session moderated by Bob Wachter

Decisions about schools have been among the most difficult and controversial in the pandemic. The challenges seem to have grown even more acute recently, as evidence that many schools can be opened safely has collided with surging case counts all over the U.S. In the first segment of this UCSF Covid-19 Grand Rounds, Emily Oster of Brown University, an expert on schools and Covid, and UCSF’s George Rutherford, an epidemiologist and public health authority, will discuss the challenges around school openings. 
 
Now that FDA approval of one or more vaccines appears imminent, in the second segment our focus turns to distribution. While the CDC and FDA will set broad guidelines, much of the heavy lifting will be done closer to home: by states, which will receive vaccine shipments from the manufacturers, and then by local distribution centers, which will need to operationalize the priority list and actually get people vaccinated. Speakers will be Erica Pan, a UCSF pediatric infectious disease faculty member who, as Acting State Health Officer, is leading California’s vaccine distribution effort, Desi Kotis, UCSF Health’s chief pharmacy executive, and George Rutherford.

Speakers:

Emily Oster, Professor of Economics, Brown University

George Rutherford, UCSF Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Director of the Prevention and Public Health Group

Erica Pan, Acting State Health Officer; Deputy Director, Center for Infectious Disease, California Department of Public Health

Desi Kotis, UCSF Health’s Chief Pharmacy Executive; Associate Dean, School of Pharmacy  

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