Interviews with Leaders Responding to the COVID-19 Epidemic

Our work with the UCSF HIV SCOPE cohort and performing translational infectious diseases studies helped provide the experience and infrastructure needed to efficiently develop these COVID-19 cohorts as the epidemic was unfolding. When it became clear that COVID-19 would become a pandemic, we quickly pivoted our HIV study infrastructure to recruit COVID-19 positive individuals with the overall goal of understanding the determinants of COVID-19 severity and long-term sequelae of COVID-19… Beyond characterizing the immune response over time, LIINC is particularly interested in determining whether the potency or durability of that response will differ between subpopulations…