Viral Intelligence: What Is Coronavirus?

What we don’t know can hurt us. Look at the way a virus spreads, to be better prepared for the next pandemic.

Overview

Course No. 90064

Examine why antibiotics are used for bacterial infections and why they aren’t used for viruses, and what it will take to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, as you join a professor of biochemistry and biophysics to take a scientific look at what a virus is.

Video Lectures

01: What is COVID-19 (18 min)

In order to understand how something so tiny that you can’t even see it with a regular microscope can bring the world to a halt, you have to understand what a virus is. Join a professor of biochemistry and biophysics to look at the novel coronavirus through the lens of science as he uncovers what a virus is, what a virus isn’t, and what it will take to reduce the spread and end th