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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
NEW YORK CITY
The Viruses, Vaccines & COVID-19 online hub was created as part of a NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene public health education initiative to reach educators, families, and young people in New York City to promote better understanding of viruses, pandemics, vaccines, and public health. Working with researchers and public health experts, we produced a slate of digital resources in three languages (English, Spanish, and Mandarin) highlighting the basics of virology to battle misinformation.
How Can a Pandemic End?
Pandemics occur when a disease spreads to many regions of the world and infects many people at the same time, as COVID-19 did in 2020. So, how can we stop a pandemic like COVID-19? With measures like mask-wearing, physical distancing, and, most importantly, vaccines, all of which cut off paths for the virus to spread.
How Do Scientists Study Viruses?
New tools and technologies let us peer into worlds that would have been impossible to see even a few decades ago. During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have been able to decode the SARS-CoV-2 virus’ genome in under 48 hours, get a view of its microscopic structure with unprecedented detail, and forecast its spread with the help of mathematical modeling.
What is a Virus?
Viruses infect every living thing and may be as old as life itself. Everywhere there’s life on Earth, from high up in the atmosphere to deep in the ocean, there are viruses. The vast majority aren’t harmful to humans at all, but to understand the few that are—like the SARS CoV-2 virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic—we must learn about the connections between humans, viruses, other organisms, and the ecosystems we co-habit.
What Are Vaccines and How Do They Work?
Vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest triumphs, and now save more lives than any other medical procedure. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines were mostly deployed against viruses that had plagued humans for centuries, such as measles and smallpox. By the time COVID-19 struck, researchers had been working on a new type of vaccine—a messenger RNA or mRNA vaccine—for decades.
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