Valuable lessons from chapter 7
1. Coronaviruses, first discovered in the 1960s, are found in birds and mammals
2. SARS-CoV-2 is a large RNA virus and appears to have an effective repair system..
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Valuable take-home points from chapter 6:
1. Difference between pandemic and epidemic.
2. Difference between prokaryotes and viruses.
3. The relationship between a virus and RNA or DNA.
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In Conversation with @LeeRberger sharing his experiences and reflections on how they worked in the pandemic environment as a paleoanthropologist with @HSoodyall the @ASSAf_Official EO.
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Five take-home points from chapter 5.
1. Mathematical modelling is imperfect, given limitations in the available data and its reliability as well as uncertainty..
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Quarantines, Social Distancing, and All That
Four take-home points from chapter 4:
1. The coronavirus spreads mainly through aerosols
2. At first the disease was regarded as less infectious than was later established..
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