Irkutsk anti-plague institute death prompts quarantines and conflicting official accounts.
|Videos|June 18, 2020
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Vibeke Strand, MD, MACR, FACP, of the Division of Immunology/Rheumatology at Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses ongoing AI research in her field.
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Segment Description: Vibeke Strand, MD, MACR, FACP, Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Division of Immunology/Rheumatology professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses AI research in her field and patients who are having a hard time getting their usual supplies of HCQ during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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