Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ed Yong Public Lecture on Long Covid (online attendance options)

[ahimsa]

I don't know anything about this event other than what's at the link.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ed-yong-public-lecture-on-long-covid-tickets-849000241577

Ed will speak on "What Reporting on Long COVID Taught Me". Ed won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for his COVID coverage.

Date and time:
Thursday, April 4
7 - 8:30pm PDT

Location:
Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue
580 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6B 1L6 Canada

Ed Yong first started reporting on long COVID in June 2020, before the condition was widely recognized by the medical community.

In this talk, he'll share how he approached his coverage, what he learned, why it mattered, and how this work changed him--his understanding of complex chronic illnesses, his attitudes to journalism, and his hopes for what his field can achieve.

After his keynote, Ed will also be facilitating a roundtable dialogue bringing together representatives from the local Long COVID patient and caregiver community, BC’s public health professionals, and researchers.

In-person seating is limited with extensive COVID-19 precautions (including mandatory masking, self-testing negative, and a venue hosting MERV-13 filters), and the event will be livestreamed for global viewing (with ASL interpretation available).

I am impressed by the mandatory safety protocols:

Mandatory Safety precautions
In recognition of practicing community care and centering patient/caregiver inclusion, we will have the following COVID-19 protections:

• All in-person attendees must wear an N95/KN95 respirator throughout the event.
• All in-person attendees must take a COVID test on the event day- Thursday (Map of pharmacies with free test kits). Upon registration, you will be required to sign a declaration stating a negative COVID-19 result.
• While not mandatory, we do recommend in-person attendees use nasal sprays and CPC mouthwash prior to the event.
• The venue uses MERV-13 filters with outdoor airflow. Doors will remain open for additional airflow.

 

[SNT Gatchaman]

Ed's talk starts at 13:08