Virology 101
Drs. Mary Hauser and Jennifer Smith present an overview of the field of virology
This information was presented to members of PANDA, Pandemic Data and Analytics, in October 2022. PANDA was established in April 2020 by a group of multidisciplinary professionals, who perceived the global reaction to COVID - from lockdowns to mandates - as overwrought and damaging to the point of causing a great tear in the fabric of society.
PANDA is a multidisciplinary, sense-making group of global experts who encourage good science, rational debate and sound public policy, with the aim of empowering people to make informed decisions.
In this presentation, virologists Dr. Mary Hauser and Dr. Jennifer Smith gave an overview of the field of virology, covering the basics from virus structure to the mechanisms of viral infections and how virologists isolate and study viruses.
"One of the myths that was perpetuated over the last few years is that SARS-CoV-2 was a novel coronavirus, something we haven't seen before, and that is false."
Hello Jennifer Smith.
I have a question about your presentation.
In your presentation you show around 17:45 three EM pictures of "pox family" representatives.
You then say "you see a distinct, electron-dense hourglass shape in the middle, that is the portion that contains the genomic material and the capsid."
I want more information on that.
1 Clinically, is this distinctive shape used to determine what type of viral infection an animal or a human has?
2 Is that hourglass shape present in vivo, or is it an artifact of the methods for preparing the slide?
3 What does 'electron-dense' mean in this context?
4 The classification of these viruses as being of the same "family" was done before seeing their distinctive shape through EM or after they were seen through electron microscopy?
5 What is the size of those canarypox viruses and smallpox and MVA compared to an animal cell that they are targeting?
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