The Webinar on Can We Trust the Vaccine for COVID-19? took place on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 from 5 pm until 6:30 pm, with Dr. Nestor Sosa, Chief of the University of New Mexico’s Infectious Disease Division and ex Director of the Gorgas Commemorative Institute of Health Studies, as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker started the virtual event with a description of what vaccines are, how they are made and how they act in our organism. Dr. Nestor Sosa then presented on the vaccines developed to combat COVID-19 and made a comparison between the different vaccines that have been developed so far, highlighting certain characteristics, like the dose quantity, the interval of dose application, the efficacy, the place of origin, the absolute contraindications, among others. The speaker also clarified the doubts and worries of the participants on this topic. This virtual event was co-organized with the Panamanian Association for the Advancement of Science (APANAC) and the Panama Pod of 500 Women Scientists.
