State of the Pandemic with Dr. Shirin Kalyan
Fresh Lens Podcast
English - December 06, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBScience science books conversation biology psychology genetics reading Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On this very special episode of Fresh Lens, we speak Dr. Shirin Kalyan of the University of British Columbia’s Department of Medicine. Dr. Kalyan is an expert in immunology and immunotherapy.
In this episode, we discuss the COVID19 pandemic and the scientific foundations of Canada’s response to it. Dr. Kalyan is a fount of knowledge. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on:
The different types of vaccinesHow mRNA vaccines differ from the past vaccinesHow the immune system recognizes different threatsWhether reaching COVID-zero is still possibleWhether the current policies being adopted in Canada make sense based on our best scienceYou can find Dr. Kalyan on Twitter @tolling_bell.
Watch segments of Dr. Kalyan’s testimony for the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health here and here.
Some of the papers we have referenced in this episode are listed below.
https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2074
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264260v1
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198