Member that identified the original sars outbreak back in 2003. Thank you so much for joining us. Its great to be here. Before we begin, i think for all of us nonscientists out there, we have got to start with square one and understand exactly what a genome is and why it pertains to covid19. Sure. A genome is all the things that composes a person or a virus. What does that mean . That means covid19 must also have all of these at play and what does that mean when it comes to sequencing and how many sequences have you analyzed so far . Right. So, what were doing here is not just testing for the coronavirus, which we do do here at the biohub in conjunction with ucsf. W sequence the genome, meaning we look at the genetic sequence. Thats important because it allows us to track where the virus has been, where it mate be going next. And how much of this tracking have you done . Because we are talking about something that is affecting every Single Person on this planet. And i know you have a l
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We are always at threat for the next pandemic. These viruses exist out in nature. As people go out in nature they get infected and then move their way back into humans. If we were to imagine the origins of covid19 as a movie, it would begin at the end of the contagion movie. Exactly that process of bulldozing down the forest, bats flying off infecting livestock that then we get infected. That happens every day, every week. Thats how these things begin. With yuhaith you wuhan is a majn the wildlife trade pathway. Its close to hot spot areas for new coronaviruses. Ever since the covid pandemic hit, weve been trying to determine if anybody knew anything about a contagion sweeping through wuhan last fall and when did they know it. Researchers looked at Satellite Photos of wuhan hospitals in october of 2019. And what they show are packed parking lots. All those red dots are cars. And we took those photos and we put em next to october of 2018. Mirror images. And you can clearly see in some t
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