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Mar 2021
20m 28s

In the Eye of the Pandemic

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How virologist Dr. Nada Melhem, from AUB's Faculty of Health Sciences, has been tackling the challenges of COVID-19 and whether she thinks we’ll have a vaccine soon to begin a return to normal life.

Interview recorded in September 2020 before phase three trails of COVID-19 vaccines were started.

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