The first lecture in the COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and the Pandemic Series, presented by the MIT Department of Biology. Bruce Walker of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard gave a talk titled "COVID-19 and the pandemic." For more information on the class, visit https://bit.ly/700Covid.

Date: 9/1/2020

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