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Medical Grand Rounds: The Omicron Surge: Testing, Clinical Aspects, Vaccines, and Global Implications

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  • On February 3, 2022, the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital co-hosted a virtual Harvard Medical Grand Rounds presentation related to COVID-19 with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Ruanne Barnabas, MBChB, MSc, DPhil, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Mass General, and experts from the Boston medical community presented on testing, clinical aspects, vaccines, and global implications of the omicron surge

On February 3, 2022, the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital co-hosted a virtual Harvard Medical Grand Rounds presentation on COVID-19 with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Mass General's Ruanne Barnabas, MBChB, MSc, DPhil, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, spoke about the recent omicron surge.

Other speakers on the panel included Kathryn E. Stephenson, MD, MPH, director of the Clinical Trials Unit in the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Paul Edward Sax, MD, clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Sanjat Kanjilal, MD, MPH, associate medical director of Clinical Microbiology at the Brigham.

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