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Let's Talk COVID-19
Welcome!
Introduction to the course (1:10)
1: Getting conversant with viruses and their origins
Introduction
1.1: How scientists view viruses
1.2: The potential of viruses to cause pandemics
1.3: Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from?
2: Narrating the story of SARS CoV-2 and its variants
Introduction
2.1: How scientists understand SARS-CoV-2
2.2: The emergence of viral variants
3: Tracking the spread of COVID-19
Introduction
3.1: How SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted
3.2: How to prevent transmission
3.3: The emerging picture of reinfections
4: Reporting on COVID-19 testing and diagnostics
Introduction
4.1 The symptoms of infection with SARS-CoV-2
4.2 The tests used to detect COVID-19 and what the test results mean
4.3 Reporting on genomic sequencing
4.4 The importance of large-scale testing
5: Making sense of COVID-19 data
Introduction
5.1: What COVID-19 numbers are being counted and what they tell us
5.2: How the data on infections, illness and deaths due to COVID-19 is collected
5.3 What data is not being collected
5.4 How the data is used to guide public health decisions
5.5 The extent to which COVID-19 deaths go uncounted
6: Reporting on COVID-19 treatment
Introduction
6.1: COVID-19: the illness
6.2. Reporting on treatment for COVID-19
6.3. What experimental drugs are being tested to treat COVID-19?
7: Following the pandemic's impact
Introduction
7.1. The estimated impact of the pandemic on economies
7.2 Progress towards the U.N Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the pandemic
7.3. The impact of COVID-19 on health and health systems
7.4 Pandemic preparedness
5.4 How the data is used to guide public health decisions
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