Viruses, Variants and Vaccines | Shahid Jameel
Channel: Science Gallery Bengaluru
Date: 06/04/2021

Viruses are fascinating things: they aren’t exactly alive by most definitions, but they aren’t inanimate either. They are also deadly, as we can see in the current COVID-19 pandemic. But, pandemics aren’t just caused by viruses. They are the result of a complex interaction between various factors ranging from human-animal interactions to our lived and built environments. Shahid Jameel is one of India’s mostly highly regarded virologists. He shares his thoughts on why it's important to look beyond SARS-CoV-2 as the singular cause of the pandemic.