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Physics Colloquium - "Coronavirus: What is it? Why should you care? What can you do about it?"

Event Type
Other
Sponsor
University of Illinois Department of Physics
Location
141 Loomis
Date
Mar 11, 2020   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Jun Song, University of Illinois
Contact
Suzanne Hallihan
E-Mail
shalliha@illinois.edu
Phone
217-333-3760
Views
207
Originating Calendar
Physics - Colloquium

SARS-CoV-2 is a new strain of coronavirus that has jumped from an animal reservoir to humans in December, 2019.  It is currently spreading rapidly worldwide, and we need to be prepared as a group to control potential community transmission. In this self-contained information session, I will explain what we currently know about this coronavirus, how testing for infection is done, how we are back-tracing the path of people-to-people transmissions, and whether we need to worry about the virus mutating into more lethal forms. I will provide useful information about good daily practices that will help reduce community transmission. For those of you who travel frequently, I will also give you some tips on how you can reduce the risk of potential infection inside airplanes.

No background in biology will be needed to understand the talk.

Link to live stream will be here: Zoom Link : Colloquium 03/11/20

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