It's been six months since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Since then, the scientific community has focused nearly all its efforts into understanding the disease in the hopes of creating a vaccine.

In the first of a two-part conversation on This Is Why, we talk with an infectious disease specialist to find out what's been discovered about the novel coronavirus.

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Guests:

Dr. Horacio Bach, adjunct professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UBC Faculty of Medicine