Decoding COVID-19
{{Short description|2020 PBS documentary film}}
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| writer = Sarah Holt{{cite web |author=Staff |title=Decoding COVID-19 |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/decoding-covid-19/ |date=2020 |work=PBS Broadcasting Service |access-date=May 14, 2020 }}
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| narrated = Craig Sechler
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| language = English
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| producer = Sarah Holt, Jane Teeling, Caitlin Saks, David Borenstein, Ma Liyan
| editor = Ralph Avellino, Ryan Shepheard, and Michael Amundson
| cinematography = Rob Lyall, Stephen McCarthy, Samuel Russell, Sun Xun, Joel Weber, Zachary Fink and Peter Fitzgerald
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Decoding COVID-19 is a 2020 American PBS documentary television film from the American TV series, NOVA, that was released on May 13, 2020.{{cite news |author=Staff |title=NOVA Episode - S47 E9: Decoding COVID-19 |url=https://www.thirteen.org/programs/nova/decoding-covid-19-hrfhb2/ |date=May 13, 2020 |work=WNET |access-date=May 14, 2020 }} The documentary film examines the COVID-19 pandemic over its initial six months, from its beginning in the last months of 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China to May 2020.
Overview
SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease, and has been responsible for a pandemic throughout the world.{{cite journal |author=Staff |title=The 2019–2020 Novel Coronavirus (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) Pandemic: A Joint American College of Academic International Medicine‑World Academic Council of Emergency Medicine Multidisciplinary COVID‑19 Working Group Consensus Paper |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340903626 |date=April 1, 2020 |journal=Journal of Global Infectious Diseases |volume=12 |number=2 |pages=47–93 |doi=10.4103/jgid.jgid_86_20 |pmid=32773996 |pmc=7384689 |access-date=May 1, 2020 |doi-access=free }} The film describes the history of the COVID-19 disease over its initial six months, from its beginning in the last months of 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China to May 2020. The film also presents the search for a safe and effective treatment. In addition, details of the effect of the disease on the human body at a microscopic level are described.{{cite news |last=Robinson |first=Jennifer |title=NOVA: Decoding COVID-19 - Airs Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 9 p.m. and Sunday, May 17 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV + Friday, May 15 at 8 a.m. and Noon on KPBS 2 + PBS Video App |url=https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/may/12/nova-decoding-covid-19/ |date=May 12, 2020 |work=KPBS |access-date=May 14, 2020 }}{{cite web |author=PBS Nova Official |title=Video (55:20): Decoding COVID-19 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz5WE3hgvBY |date=May 13, 2020 |work=PBS Broadcasting Service |access-date=May 14, 2020 }} According to film producer Julia Cort, "This film goes beyond the disease itself, telling a deeply human story of cooperation and innovation as scientists and researchers race to save lives in the face of a common enemy."{{cite news |last=Barney |first=Chuck |title=Pandemic TV: 'Decoding COVID-19' explores the race to find a vaccine |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/13/pandemic-tv-decoding-covid-19-explores-the-race-to-find-a-vaccine/ |date=May 13, 2020 |work=The Mercury News |access-date=May 14, 2020 }} According to producer Chris Schmidt, "This film examines an encouraging array of innovative new approaches that scientists are now pursuing to harness the immune system to fight back. And, we show how advances in genomics, combined with a new level of openness in sharing data and results among experts and health officials around the world, have greatly accelerated efforts."
Participants
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The documentary film includes the following participants (alphabetized by last name):
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- Galit Alter, Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, Harvard
- Dan Barouch, Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, Harvard
- Nahid Bhadelia, Boston University School of Medicine
- Kizzmekia Corbett, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Ronald B. Corley, Boston University{{'s}} National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL)
- Rhiju Das, Stanford University
- Robert A. Davey, Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL)
- Michael Osterholm, University of Minnesota{{'s}} Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
- David Pride, University of California, San Diego
- Liu Qi, 21-year-old university student who is among the first to contract the disease
- Craig Sechler, narrator
- Jeffrey Shaman, Columbia University
- Duane Wesemann, Harvard Medical School, and others
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See also
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- COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory
- {{annotated link|Emerging infectious disease}}
- {{annotated link|Globalisation and disease}}
- List of epidemics and pandemics
- List of NOVA episodes
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References
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External links
- {{official website|https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/decoding-covid-19/|Decoding COVID-19}} at the [https://www.pbs.org PBS WebSite]
- {{youTube|dz5WE3hgvBY|Decoding COVID-19 - full episode (55:20)}}
- [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340903626_The_2019-2020_Novel_Coronavirus_Severe_Acute_Respiratory_Syndrome_Coronavirus_2_Pandemic_A_Joint_American_College_of_Academic_International_Medicine-World_Academic_Council_of_Emergency_Medicine_Multid Joint ACAIM-WACEM COVID-19 Working Group Consensus Paper] (April 2020)
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