The Virology of Covid-19: Looking behind the Headlines

Why are viruses so successful at replicating themselves, how do their hosts react to infection, and how do they evolve to outwit our best efforts to combat them? Never have these questions been so crucial as they are right now. Our two speakers – Dr Jane Sellwood, of Reading U3A, a former Consultant Clinical Virologist at the Royal Berkshire Hospital who has also worked for the Health Protection Agency, and Dr David McLellan, of Torridge U3A, a retired university lecturer in Biomedical Science – cast their expert eyes over what’s really going on behind the lurid headlines. Jane’s talk delves into the life-cycle of viruses in general, and Covid-19 in particular, then David focuses on some of the variants that have emerged, and how they’ve influenced the progress of the pandemic, with regard to both transmission and the effectiveness of the vaccines.

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