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Test your COVID-19 pandemic knowledge with these 5 questions! When did the COVID-19 Pandemic start? December 31, 2019 March 11, 2020 November 05, 2019 January 24, 2020 What is the primary mode of COVID-19 spread? Aerosols in the air Droplets of an infected person Touching surfaces with the virus on it Spread via bodily fluidsContinue reading “Some Questions to Test your COVID-19 Knowledge”

Models for invasive species can also apply to COVID-19. It is strange to think of the current pandemic in such a light but there are many similarities between the two. Procedures that prevent the spread of invasive plants and animals will also apply to prevent the spread of COVID-19, procedures that were unfortunately not appliedContinue reading “How Invasive Species Modelling Can Apply to the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Scientific papers can be broadly categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary. A primary paper is where the paper discusses an experiment conducted by the author(s) and they report their findings. Primary papers typically contain a methods section and may include statistical tests with their findings. An example would be Urban streams across the USA: lessonsContinue reading “An Introduction to Scientific Articles”

Viruses remain somewhat of an enigma to scientists. They are still debating whether or not viruses should even be considered living or not with good arguments on both sides. What are viruses anyway? To put it simply, they are a collection of DNA or RNA enclosed in a protein coat. They are very simple geneticallyContinue reading “What are Viruses? A Basic Overview”

Over the years people have discovered links between climate change, urbanization, and the spread of zoonotic viruses like COVID-19. I’ve done a podcast for a previous course (BIOL2050) on this very topic and my group members and I found interesting correlations between the three which I will try to summarize here. To begin, for zoonoticContinue reading “How Climate Change Leads to an Increase of Zoonotic Viruses like COVID-19”