Virology Lectures 2024 #12: Infection basics

[@WillNewcomb]

This is BRILLIANT. Just like the very first lecture, this basic Infection video should be compulsory consumption for EVERY health journalist. PLEASE listen, study and learn. If I, as a complete layperson, can comprehend the broad brush strokes that Racaniello paints, SO CAN YOU!

[@joaquimmendes31]

In the formula for the basic reproductive number, I believe the parameter "c" actually represents the average number of contacts between the infected host and uninfected hosts per unit time.

[@swomdebmondal]

Can you please make a whole lecture on SARS-CoV-2 replication, translation, protein. And therapeutic target.

[@vsantrac]

Thanks

[@tekkaraA]

I still.didnt understand the comment on studying families where an infected person is introduced unknowingly. Are these random families that you are already studying. To know maybe the period to infection of the rest

[@christopherrobinson7541]

Determining the secondary attack rate requires considerable effort in tracking and tracing those in the social groups of interest. It is not an easy task.

[@WillNewcomb]

Infection "basics"??? I wonder if there's something here that I would understand haha!!!

[@WillNewcomb]

YES! Having now listened I can confirm I understood quite a bit.

[@traianliviudanciu8665]

May be interferon induce symptoms ?and not only

[@frogsong100]

Huh?

[@traianliviudanciu8665]

@@frogsong100 interferon induce fever,also

[@FabianArisen]

Hey Vincent, I was spesking to my Molecular Biology lecturer about covid and he said that covid was artificially created and not a "bat virus". He also said that he didn't take any of the jabs and that the components of these vaccines stay in your system for a long time and can remain "dormant" until certain effects arise. I was so motivated to continue on my path in knowing that I wasn't a conspiracy theorist or an antivaxxer. Please let me know what you think.

[@FabianArisen]

He said that Sars-like organisms are all around us and that covid wasn't unexpected or spontaneous but rather some sort of manipulation.

[@frogsong100]

Always ask anyone who makes wild claims what their credible medical source is that backs the claims. And, do your own research at good websites.

[@frogsong100]

​@@FabianArisen- Rubbish

[@FabianArisen]

@@frogsong100 So isn't someone with a PhD in Molecular Biology credible? People like you said "trust the experts" so isn't he an expert with over 2 decades in the field of genetic study?

[@FrostekFerenczy]

> knowing that I wasn't a conspiracy theorist or an antivaxxer. Please let me know what you think. I think that you're lying to us as well as yourself. Fortunately we aren't as stupid as you, so we don't believe you. You *are* a conspiracy loon / anti-vaxxer.