Start Date
18-12-2020 9:00 AM
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News coverage about the COVID-19 pandemic has often compared SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes this disease, to other coronaviruses that have made the species jump to humans, such as SARS-CoV of the 2003 SARS outbreak, MERS-CoV of the 2012 MERS outbreak, and the coronaviruses that cause the flu and common cold. Though the comparison of SARS-CoV-2 to the common cold has been weaponized for political reasons, it is important for the study of SARS-CoV-2 and the coronavirus classification, the development of an effective arsenal against this virus and the global pandemic, and the effective implementation of public health measures. In order to tackle these broad areas of research, the genetic makeup of SARS-CoV-2 must be analyzed and compared to that of other human coronaviruses. Research about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 has been conducted extremely rapidly, with the demand for new and groundbreaking information growing more and more each day as we aim to end the global pandemic. The research that has been conducted approaches the virus and the pandemic from many different angles and fields, such as epidemiology, medicine, economics, psychology, and much more; however, there is an enormous information gap in the medicine, biochemistry, and genetics of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. In this research endeavor, I will determine how genetically related SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and other coronaviruses are, and how these variations effect observed differences in epidemiology, symptoms, and severity, among others.
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Genetic Relationship between SARS-CoV-2 and Other Coronaviruses
News coverage about the COVID-19 pandemic has often compared SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes this disease, to other coronaviruses that have made the species jump to humans, such as SARS-CoV of the 2003 SARS outbreak, MERS-CoV of the 2012 MERS outbreak, and the coronaviruses that cause the flu and common cold. Though the comparison of SARS-CoV-2 to the common cold has been weaponized for political reasons, it is important for the study of SARS-CoV-2 and the coronavirus classification, the development of an effective arsenal against this virus and the global pandemic, and the effective implementation of public health measures. In order to tackle these broad areas of research, the genetic makeup of SARS-CoV-2 must be analyzed and compared to that of other human coronaviruses. Research about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 has been conducted extremely rapidly, with the demand for new and groundbreaking information growing more and more each day as we aim to end the global pandemic. The research that has been conducted approaches the virus and the pandemic from many different angles and fields, such as epidemiology, medicine, economics, psychology, and much more; however, there is an enormous information gap in the medicine, biochemistry, and genetics of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. In this research endeavor, I will determine how genetically related SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and other coronaviruses are, and how these variations effect observed differences in epidemiology, symptoms, and severity, among others.
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Mentor: Jordan Freitas