Getting to know COVID-19 - an update (part 1)

Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 11 p.m.

It's been six months since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Since then, the scientific community has focused nearly all its efforts into understanding the disease in the hopes of creating a vaccine. In the first of a two-part conversation on This Is Why, we talk with an infectious disease specialist to find out what's been discovered about the novel coronavirus. Contact: Adam Toy - @Adam_Toy on Twitter Dave McIvor - @d_mac1519 on Twitter This is Why - @ThisIsWhy on Twitter Email us - thisiswhy@globalnews.ca Guests: Dr. Horacio Bach, adjunct professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UBC Faculty of Medicine