January 30, 2020

Video: Epidemiologist answers common questions about coronavirus

by Iqbal Pittalwala, University of California - Riverside

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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 in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, answers some of the most common questions about coronavirus. 

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