What is a coronavirus? - Elizabeth Cox
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For almost a decade, scientists chased the source of a deadly new virus through China’s tallest mountains and most isolated caverns. They finally found it in the bats of Shitou Cave. The virus in question was a coronavirus that caused an epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in 2003. So what exactly is a coronavirus, and how does it spread? Elizabeth Cox explains.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Elizabeth Cox
- Director Anton Bogaty
- Narrator Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Animator Anton Bogaty
- Storyboard Artist Anton Bogaty
- Art Director Anton Bogaty
- Compositor Anton Bogaty
- Music Jarrett Farkas
- Sound Designer Weston Fonger
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal, Elizabeth Cox
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
- Science Consultant Edsel Maurice T. Salvaña, Nassim Assefi
- Special Thanks Kim Preshoff
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