Virtual CROI 2020 dedicated a special session on COVID-19 to present state-of-the-art of what is known about COVID-19 and its causative pathogen, SARS-CoV-2. This special session focused on the epidemiology and efforts in China; the global epidemiology and effort to control the outbreak; the virology of coronaviruses overall, molecular aspects of transmission to humans, and pathogenesis in mice models and parallels in humans; and the NIAID/NIH efforts to study novel coronaviruses and develop diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines.
The COVID-19 session is available to anyone as a webcast.