What is a coronavirus? - Elizabeth Cox
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Elizabeth Cox |
TED-Ed
• May 2020
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For almost a decade, scientists chased the source of a deadly new virus through China's tallest mountains and most isolated caverns. They finally found it in the bats of Shitou Cave. The virus in question was a coronavirus that caused an epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in 2003. So what exactly is a coronavirus, and how does it spread? Elizabeth Cox explains.
Lesson by Elizabeth Cox, directed by Anton Bogaty.