January 30, 2020

Video: Epidemiologist answers common questions about coronavirus

by Iqbal Pittalwala , University of California - Riverside

Credit: CC0 Public Domain

Coronavirus, also known as the Wuhan virus or 2019-nCoV, is similar to the seasonal flu in symptoms and how it is transmitted.

In this short video, Brandon Brown, an epidemiologist in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, answers some of the most common questions about coronavirus.

Credit: University of California - Riverside

Provided by University of California - Riverside

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