Will the Delta Variant Peak and Then Burn Out?
Ali Mokdad, PhD, chief strategy officer for population health, University of Washington, Seattle.
Eric Topol, MD, executive vice president, Scripps Research; founder and director, Scripps Research Translational Institute, La Jolla, CA; editor-in-chief, Medscape.
Justin Lessler, PhD, professor of epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Amesh Adalja, MD, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Baltimore.
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