Dr. Galit Alter chats with host Dr. Chana Davis about why COVID-19 infections can be either deadly or invisible – and why age, health, and obesity matter so much. Dr. Alter, a leading immunologist, sheds light on how our immune…
Herd immunity is not an effective strategy for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. IHME Director and lead COVID-19 modeler Dr. Christopher Murray busts myths about the strategy and provides insights on more effective solutions to the global crisis. Interact with IHME’s…
A scientific explanation of COVID-19 symptoms, modes of transmission and current status of vaccine development, this presentation will be prefaced with the questions, “What is a Virus?”, “Why is this virus so dangerous?”, and “How did COVID-19 become a Pandemic?”…
How does a virus that may have originated in bats jump to humans? How do we model the spread of infection? And how do racial inequities in health and healthcare affect how a pandemic unfolds? In this online discussion, Museum…
R0 (the basic reproductive number) tells us more than just how many people will be infected in a totally susceptible population. It can be used to calculate the how much vaccine coverage is needed to get to herd immunity. As…
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