On October 21, 2020, a special session as part of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club took place. Alexander Gintsburg, Director of the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology; Kirill Dmitriev, Chief Executive Officer of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and Rinat Maksyutov, Director General of the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR of Rospotrebnadzor took part in the session. The session was moderated by Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club.