Dr Daniel Griffin MD, PhD - gives an introductory comprehensive talk about the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Dr Daniel Griffin is a Physician-Scientist and Chief of the Division of Infectious Disease at ProHEALTH New York, and a clinical instructor of Medicine at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center. He is President of Parasites Without Borders, a co-host of This Week in Virology (TWIV) and active in the clinical care of patients living in the New York area and has been particularly involved in the care of patients suffering from COVID-19 since the very beginning of the pandemic.
Viruses and coronaviruses are defined, we talk about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, discuss what a pandemic is and why we are in a pandemic, the transmission and contagiousness of this coronavirus, the variants of concern with a focus on Omicron and a look to the future.
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