Event type:
Seminar
Event date:
Tuesday, 18 February 2020 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Cost:
Free
Location:
Berg Family Foundation Seminar Room, Level 6, Wallace Wurth Building, Kensington Campus, UNSW Sydney
Booking deadline:
Monday, 17 February 2020 - 5:00pm
Booking url:
The recording of Professor Raina MacIntyre's coronavirus talk is now available: https://youtu.be/ykCBV1hx5sY
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This seminar is sold out!
Due to the popularity of the seminar, we will also be live streaming. Please join the live stream tomorrow here: bit.ly/KI-livestream
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Kirby Institute Seminar Series presents
Abstract
A novel coronavirus, COVID-19, emerged in early December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO on 30 January 2020 when there were 7,711 cases globally, mostly in China. It has now surpassed SARS in number of cases and deaths, and has some similarities to both SARS and MERS CoV. This talk will cover the evidence of origins, clinical features, epidemiology and public health response to COVID-19, and forecasts of the epidemic trajectory.