At the beginning of December, two Covid-19 vaccines were approved for emergency use by the FDA. These vaccines, one created by Pfizer & BioNTech and one created by Moderna, both use a new technology that will help our bodies fight off the virus that causes the Covid-19 disease.

We're sure you have questions! Join CNSCOS on Thursday, January 14th at 7pm Pacific Time for a Q&A session with two vaccine experts (bios below). This session will be hosted on Zoom and will be recorded and posted online for later viewing. We'll send out the Zoom invite link the day of the event.

SPEAKER BIOS:

SAM STAMPFER is a physician scientist in his final year of infectious diseases fellowship at Emory University. He completed his MD/PhD at Tufts in 2015 where he studied how herpesviruses infect cells, and has continued doing basic science research at Emory where he develops vaccines for potential pandemics, including Ebola and coronaviruses. He works as a consultant in the hospital helping other doctors treat complicated infections, and also works at a specialized clinic for patients with HIV.

ERIN ROSS is the lead Covid-19 reporter for Oregon Public Broadcasting. She can offer an Oregon-specific perspective of the vaccine rollout process, current and future lockdowns, and what school might look like in the near future, among other Oregon specific pandemic topics.

Her work has also appeared in national and regional publications including Axios, NPR, Nature, Science, and Scientific American. Before becoming a science writer, Erin studied biology at Clark University and spent three years studying the spread of infectious disease in a disease ecology lab.