Periodical Banter

This week Aimie and I have a nice bit of banter trying to explain the current events towards the information surrounding the coronavirus. Debunking a few common myths and misconceptions surrounding the virus that have been seen in the news recently.

All links to any refrences have been provided below:

WHO Information on the coronavirus

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

Elsevier Information on the coronavirus

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center

BBC Article on coronavirus misinformation

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51271037

Quantum dot research

https://www.cell.com/heliyon/fulltext/S2405-8440(18)30794-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2405844018307941%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

The latest 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China

https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1201971220300114

Full-genome evolutionary analysis of the novel corona virus (2019-nCoV) rejects the hypothesis of emergence as a result of a recent recombination event

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567134820300447?via%3Dihub

Protein separation research for vaccine: Coronavirus envelope protein: current knowledge

https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-019-1182-0

Novel Coronavirus Emerging in China: Key Questions for Impact Assessment

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2000929 (Includes majority of the stats spoken about in the podcast)

What is a virus? How do they work?

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/cellular-microscopic/virus-danger.htm

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