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Building the Real-Time Learning Network: Creating a leading medical resource for the COVID-19 pandemic

Let's Talk ID

Show Notes

In 2020, with funding from CDC, IDSA launched the Real-Time Learning Network, a website that provided timely information about COVID-19 pandemic to clinicians and the public. In this episode, medical editors of the Real-Time Learning Network recount their experiences building the project from the ground up and discuss lessons learned for the future.

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