Expert Perspectives on the Coronavirus Pandemic

Hendrik Poinar explains viral evolution and why so many diseases seem to come from animals in New Yorker expert panel.
Hendrik took part in a special panel put together by The New Yorker to discuss Sars-CoV-2. The panel consisted of experts across 6 fields, ranging from genetics to science fiction, and discussed where Covid-19 and other past bugs come from, how they cause disease, and how history can help inform our understanding of present and future pandemics.
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