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Is Zero Covid possible?

The BMJ

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Evidence and public healthInfectious diseasePublic health and policyEpidemiology and statistics

Kamran Abbasi hosts a debate on the feasibility, strategies, and public health implications of pursuing a Zero Covid elimination strategy.

. Welcome - Kamran Abbasi, executive editor of The BMJ . Strategies for ID control (Chair: Phil Hammond) - Art Reingold, chair  of the Division of Epidemiology at University of California, Berkeley . For and against zero covid/elimination (AP) (Chair: Helen Ward) - Deepti Gurdasani, senior lecturer in machine learning at Queen Mary University of London - John Ioannidis, professor of medicine at Stanford University . Country Case studies (Chair: Allyson Pollock, Newcastle University) - Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health at the University of Otago - Camilla Stoltenberg, Director General of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health - Chang-yup Kim, professor of health policy Seoul National University - Stefan Baral, associate professor at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health . Zero covid: implications for childhood vaccination (Chair: Phil Hammond) - Jennie Lavine (Emory University) . Possible futures for the UK (Chair: Kamran Abbasi) - Christina Page, professor of operational research University College London - George Davey Smith, professor of clinical epidemiology, University of Bristol 01.. Discussion/ Q&A (Chair: Phil Hammond) 02.. Close

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