Episode 15: Alta Charo and COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccines

Photo of Prof. Alta Charo.R. Alta Charo, Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.

Prof. Charo (SSRN; UW Law Repository) is a leading expert in bioethics and discusses the development of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines and the procedures and legal issues that surround each. She talks about how vaccine distribution can be expected, how a vaccine gets approved, and how federal, state, and local law and agencies come into play. (For additional information, please see the NIH’s website on COVID-19.)

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This interview was conducted on December 1, 2020. | 54:53 minutes; published December 3, 2020. Transcript file (PDF).

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