There is a lot of information circulating online about COVID-19 and there is a lot of confusion around what will happen to individuals, what this new enemy is that has suddenly appeared in our midst, interrupted/threatened our lives, and what to do to stay safe. The goal of this webinar is to provide clear information to demystify COVID-19 and provide a platform to answer questions. The content is scientific in nature but simplified for people so that people without a strong scientific background can understand the content.

Learning Objectives:-

• Following the completion of this webinar, you will gain a basic to moderate knowledge of Coronaviruses in general and COVID-19, its biology, transmission, epidemiology, clinical features, warning signs, diagnosis, risk factors, and prevention of COVID-19.
• Countermeasures will be discussed at a high level and will be broken down into potential treatments that block the viral lifecycle (monoclonal antibodies, Camostat mesylate, chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir-ritonavir, remdesivir); potential anti-inflammatories (corticosteroids and baricitinib); immune boosters; and potential vaccines.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:-

• Emergence of COVID-19
• Comparison with other strains of Coronaviruses
• Biology and life-cycle
• Epidemiology and pathogenesis
• Transmission
• Incubation period
• Clinical features
• Warning signs
• Diagnosis
• Differential diagnosis
• Prevention
• Risk factors
• Therapeutic recommendations
• An over view of the potential treatment candidates

Why Should You Attend:-

Coronavirus is considered a threat to the entire human life due to the lack of a sufficient preventive and treatment strategy to protect against it until now. This webinar explains scientific content in simple terms to rule out the confusion caused by the humongous amount of information circulating online about this Pandemic.

The Coronaviruses (CoV) are positive-sense RNA viruses possessing spike-like projections on the surface creating a crown-like appearance upon magnification with electron microscopy. They are a large family of viruses causing a wide range of illnesses from the common cold to more severe diseases, such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).

The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) or the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a man-made chimera that was engineered in 2015 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This engineered virus claimed its first victim in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in Wuhan China in December 2019. On December 31st, 2019, China notified the outbreak to the World Health Organization. The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, declared COVID-19 a pandemic, pointing to the over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and the sustained risk of further global spread.

Who Will Benefit:-

• Anyone who has concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic and wants to understand more about the scientific basis for how it came about, what it is, what we are doing to combat it, and what to expect in the future.
• Professionals from any industry or company of any size.