A Biography of SARS-CoV-2

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The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a previously unseen human pathogen that causes COVID-19, a human respiratory disease. Declared a global pandemic in March 2020, COVID-19 sickened millions and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands across the globe. SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic exposed multiple weaknesses in human societies, including limits to science, technology, globalization, delivery of healthcare, economic and racial disparities that will likely influence problem solvers for the next decade, if not the rest of this century. This course will present a detailed biography of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, from its start as an animal virus to its evolution into a human pathogen to its effect on the human body and human societies, to efforts to tame its pernicious effects.