"COVID and More" with Guest Dr. Don Sheppard

Taking the pulse of the COVID-19 pandemic with the OSS team and Dr. Don Sheppard, Director of the McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity. Where are we today and what is the path to our "new normal"? How is the slow rollout of monoclonal antibodies having an effect on COVID-19 therapies? We'll discuss this and more. Be sure to tune in.

The webcast can be accessed LIVE on January 21st at 12pm EST on the McGill OSS YouTube channel.

Dr. Sheppard is a Professor and Chairman of the Department Microbiology & Immunology at McGill University, in Montreal. He leads the Medical Mycology laboratory and practices clinical infectious diseases at the McGill University Health Centre where he served as the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases from 2012-2018. He is an elected fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the American Academy of Microbiology.

"COVID & More: Conversations with the McGill Office for Science and Society" are interactive webcasts that are streamed live on the McGill OSS YouTube Channel. Topics focus on many of the questions surrounding COVID-19 as well as other current science topics. Viewers can submit questions in real-time.

All webcasts can be found on the "COVID & More" playlist on the McGill OSS YouTube channel.

Conversations are moderated by McGill OSS Director Joe Schwarcz and include the OSS team and various guests.