Irwin Redlener, MD, Director, Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative (PRRI), Professor of Health Policy and Management and Pediatrics, Senior Research Scholar , National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), President Emeritus & Co-Founder, Children's Health Fund. Columbia University Medical Center, "COVID-19: Current Status & What We Need To Know Now"
A summarising overview of the current status of the pandemic and our knowledge of it is given by Dr. Redlener. While the hotspots at the beginning of the pandemic were urban centres, the virus now spreads more and more into rural and less developed areas, so that an end before 2022 to 2024 becomes more and more unlikely. Many medical aspects, such as viable drugs, vaccines, build up of immunity, reasons for different severity etc. are still unknown and under heavy research. He ends his presentation with a list of needed tools, in descending order in which he expects them to be available, starting with hospital drugs and ending with an effective vaccine.
