Join Professor Tom Solomon as he hosts a regular discussion on Coronavirus and its impact on science and society in Liverpool. Tom talks with leading Liverpool researchers about the scientific progress being made in the city to tackle the virus and chats about the wider impact of the pandemic with some famous local faces.

Guests on both Facebook and Zoom will be able to ask questions to the panel.

His guests this time are BBC North West Tonight presenter, Eleanor Moritz, and Dr Tom Fletcher, a consultant in the Tropical Infectious Disease Unit, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust NHS, Liverpool, and Senior Clinical Lecturer at LSTM.

Eleanor Moritz is the regular producer/presenter of the BBC’s regional TV Breakfast news bulletins in the North West. She has worked for the BBC for 32 years, having spent six years at BBC Radio Lancashire, before moving to North West Tonight in 1994. Her roles there have included reporter, correspondent, producer and presenter.

Dr Tom Fletcher is a consultant in the Tropical Infectious Disease Unit, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust NHS, Liverpool, and Senior Clinical Lecturer at LSTM. He is also a physician in the Defence Medical Services and his research at LSTM is focussed on High-Consequence Infectious Diseases.

Professor Tom Solomon is Director of the UK's Emerging Infections Research Unit based as the University of Liverpool, is on the NHS front line at the Walton NeuroCentre and Royal Liverpool University Hospital, and appears regularly on television and radio discussing science.

The event will be streamed via Zoom and the University of Liverpool Facebook page.

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