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COVID AMA: Is Covid-19 Airborne?

A researcher at Peking University's Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics conducting tests at their laboratory, Thursday, May 14, 2020.
A researcher at Peking University's Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics conducting tests at their laboratory, Thursday, May 14, 2020.
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COVID AMA: Is Covid-19 Airborne?

In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry speaks with Dr. Shruti Gohil, professor of medicine and associate medical director for epidemiology and infection prevention at UC Irvine’s School of Medicine.

Topics today include:

  • A letter signed by hundreds of experts urging WHO to declare the coronavirus as also an airborne disease 

  • RNA experiments and how they figure into the development of a coronavirus vaccine

  • Chiropractors and Covid cure?

  • Criticism over the handling of Covid is being increasingly directed at state and city leaders -- is it fair?

Guests:

Ann Marie Carlton, professor of chemistry at UC Irvine; she is one of the 240 signatories on the letter urging the World Health Organization to address airborne transmission of COVID-19 

Shruti Gohil, M.D., professor of medicine and associate medical director for epidemiology and infection prevention at UC Irvine’s School of Medicine