SYNAPSIS is taking you back to a few years ago, bringing back all of your favorite memories of the pandemic! This episode will introduce the culprit SARS-CoV-2 and its close cousin SARS-CoV-1, followed by descriptions of viral infection mechanisms using Herpes and HIV as examples, and also touch on some antiviral mechanisms before getting into Long Covid to prepare you for Part 2 next week, which will be all about specific male and female fertility studies related to COVID-19.