The vast majority of people who contract coronavirus will recover and only a small percentage of infected persons will die from the disease. But it can be deadly.
Those are conclusions from Dr. Chad Roy, professor of microbiology and immunology, Tulane
The vast majority of people who contract coronavirus will recover and only a small percentage of infected persons will die from the disease. But it can be deadly.
Those are conclusions from Dr. Chad Roy, professor of microbiology and immunology, Tulane University.
Roy, who also serves as director of the biodefense research program at the Tulane National Primate Center, talked about what we have learned so far about the pandemic that is disrupting society, industry and life as we know it across the globe.
Roy looked at the origins of the pandemic and what the public can expect as the virus runs its course, during a March 23 webinar sponsored by AgriSafe Network with support from Gallagher National Risk Control.
He explains that COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan, a central China city in the Hubei province about five times the size of London. He says the virus emerged from a wet (seafood) market where food is processed and bought but adds that the virus probably was already in the population.
The virus likely came from a bat before moving into the human population. Roy says the bat could have been harboring the virus for 