{"id":105519,"date":"2020-04-16T09:26:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-virology-expert-answers-key-questions-on-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-04-16T09:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:26:52","slug":"a-virology-expert-answers-key-questions-on-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-virology-expert-answers-key-questions-on-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"A virology expert answers key questions on COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-virology-expert-answers-key-questions-on-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discussion with A biologist answering about Covid in quite a lot of detail.<\/p>\n<p>World Economic Forum<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As of 23 March, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">336,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world<\/a>, with more than 250,000 cases outside China. Despite these numbers, much is still misunderstood or unknown about the virus which has brought regions of the globe to a standstill and placed huge pressure on the global economy.<\/p>\n<p>Even what we do know \u2013 that elderly people are more at risk, that this is a new virus but resembles other known epidemics, that it is highly infectious \u2013 requires more explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Belgian virologist Guido Vanham, the former head of virology at the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, helps answer questions about COVID-19\u2019s origins, its behaviour and its future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion with A biologist answering about Covid in quite a lot of detail. World Economic Forum As of 23 March, there were 336,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world, with more than 250,000 cases outside China. Despite these numbers, much is still misunderstood or unknown about the virus which has brought regions of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}