Episode 53: COVID-19 - Origins
Viral Load
English - April 22, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsScience Comedy epidemiology disease comedy education climate change death global health epidemic pandemic Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The search continues for the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19—and the pathway that it took to leap from animals to humans, resulting in 129 million infections and more than 2.8 million deaths....and counting. The World Health Organization recently released a report from a team of international researchers that traveled to China to investigate four possible origin scenarios. Tune in to find out what this 300-page monster has to tell us. Trigger alert: there will be bats.