UNMC dean discussing COVID response during next week’s Science Café Post Views: 179 HOSTED BY: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society TITLE: “Speed of Science vs. Speed of Antiscience: Pandemic Information Speed Trials” TOPIC: Dr. Ali Khan, dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, will provide an overview of COVID-19 nationally and globally and compare the responses of countries that celebrate near-zero cases and deaths and those that don’t. He will highlight the speed of science as the bright side of this pandemic and discuss the role of misleading facts and conspiracy theories in hindering the necessary communication and public health efforts to control COVID-19 in the U.S.