Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
What Can We Learn from Outbreaks like COVID-19?
Lydia Krasilinkova: What happens to your COVID test after you get your test result? Discover how we trace outbreaks like COVID-19 as they move around the world, and what we can learn about vaccines, masks, and disease spread by applying genome sequencing to the viruses that infect us.
This video is part of our Virtual Scientist in a Classroom program: https://hmnh.harvard.edu/virtual-scientist-classroom. School teachers may be able to arrange a live and Q&A session with this presenter.
What Can We Learn from Outbreaks like COVID-19?
Lydia Krasilinkova: What happens to your COVID test after you get your test result? Discover how we trace outbreaks like COVID-19 as they move around the world, and what we can learn about vaccines, masks, and disease spread by applying genome sequencing to the viruses that infect us.
This video is part of our Virtual Scientist in a Classroom program: https://hmnh.harvard.edu/virtual-scientist-classroom. School teachers may be able to arrange a live and Q&A session with this presenter.
