Understanding Coronavirus
Why is information about the coronavirus/COVID-19 so confusing? Grasp the key facts in this concise, accessible and authoritative
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Why is information about the coronavirus/COVID-19 so confusing? Grasp the key facts in this concise, accessible and authoritative
book.
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. How is the coronavirus spreading?; 3. What is a coronavirus; 4. How is the coronavirus changing?;
5. How did the COVID-19 outbreak start and evolve?; 6. How does the COVID-19 outbreak compare to the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003?;
7. How does the COVID-19 outbreak compare to seasonal and pandemic influenza?; 8. Are there therapeutic options?; Epilogue;
Summary of common misunderstandings; Suggested further reading.
Raul Rabadan is a Professor in the Department of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics, as well as the director of the
Program for Mathematical Genomics, at Columbia University. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Rabadan was a fellow at the Theoretical
Physics Division at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2003 he joined the School
of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has been named one of Popular Science's
Brilliant 10 (2010), a Stewart Trust Fellow (2013), and he received the Harold and Golden Lamport (2014), Diz Pintado (2018)
and Phillip Sharp (2018) awards. Dr. Rabadan's current interest focuses on uncovering patterns of evolution in biological
systems - in particular, RNA viruses and cancer.