Understanding COVID-19 Transmission

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As part of Conversations on COVID-19, a webinar series hosted by the Caltech Science Exchange, science writer Emily Velasco spoke with three Caltech graduate students — Matt Cooper, Emily Savela, and Alex Winnett — who are leading the Caltech COVID-19 study in partnership with the Pasadena Public Health Department (PPHD). Cooper, Savela, and Winnett are members of the lab of Rustem F. Ismagilov, Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and director of the Jacobs Institute for Molecular Engineering for Medicine. Their study is measuring the amount of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in the saliva of those who recently tested positive for COVID-19 or who share a home with someone who has recently tested positive. The results will be important to understanding how the virus replicates, even in people with few or no symptoms. In this conversation, the graduate students discuss the intricacies of designing an experiment to track the early stages of a COVID infection, and what this work has meant to them. Learn more about the science behind testing and viruses on the Caltech Science Exchange: https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/covid-19-coronavirus-sars-cov-2?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cseviruses About Conversations on COVID-19 In this series, Caltech science writers interview scientists and engineers from across campus and at JPL about how they are tackling COVID-19. https://scienceexchange.ca

Published 2021-03-23 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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