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REVIEW: CORONA VIRUS, EXPLAINED. A vox produced Netflix series.

CORONA VIRUS, EXPLAINED.  A vox produced series.

image source: netflix

Written by: Dr.Shadab Kamal


Produced by:
Starred: 
 J.K. Simmons            .. self narrator
Bill Gates                    .. self-gates foundation (co-chair)
Maryn McKenna        .. self- journalist

Episode 1- Knew it coming!! Or a mystery yet to unravel?

Opening shot: Snaps of different countries in lockdown, sirens hailing, birds chirping, empty roads, no human. J.K. Simmons intones, “Before closing their borders, and locking down their citizens, many world leaders downplayed the new virus that was sweeping the globe."

Sars_2002 , Mers_2012  and then Sars COV-2  named Covid 19 (corona virus disease 2019)

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maryn mckenna

spanish flu deaths
Over the millennia, the epidemics have been mass killers on a scale.
6th century pandemic Plague of justanian – killed 50 million people 
14th century pandemicplague of Black Death – killed 200 million people in Europe.
20th century pandemicthe Small Pox – was estimated to kill 300 million people but have not.
Worlds’s 1st vaccine – for small pox that had been available since 1796 saved the disaster.
However, in “1980 we had massive global virus campaign and small pox was the 1st virus that had been successfully eradicated from the world”, as well. [fact stated by J.K.Simmon in CORONA VIRUS EXPLAINED].

On 7th November 2019, a Netflix EXPLAINED series, EP 4 titled 
“THE NEXT PANDEMIC”,
(Also narrated by J.K.SIMMONS Starring Bill Gates) described how a virus like the coronavirus spreads in live animal markets like the one in Wuhan.  People who aren't worried about a looming global pandemic probably should be; preparing for an outbreak; Bill Gates and other experts weigh in.
They discussed about past pandemics, the bubonic and pneumonic plague, Ebola, the famous 1918 flu and small pox. Role of human technology being a cause of pandemic and its role in studying, identifying, diagnosing,treating and preventing diseases.

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The episode narrated china's wet markets as DISEASE X FACTORY;
covid 19

wet markets china

covid 19

These wet markets are strikingly similar to the sea food market in wuhan. Since the sars epidemic a number of researchers were catching bats for researches and then after Chinese sea food markets, the source was thought to be a research lab. However, till date it is unknown!!

Many people around the Globe are now confidently stating it as conspiracy. Let’s hope this “CORONAVIRUS EXPLAINED”, come up to a conclusion in the end.

The documentary narration read,
Dr.anthony fauci national institute of allergy and infectious disease director said on march 12,2020 live on c-span3 “it (vaccine) gonna take a year or year an half to really knows if it works”
covid 19 research

In this episode from 2019, experts including Bill Gates discuss the history of pandemics, how they spread and what could be done to prevent them.

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1918 flu “ st. Louis city took that approach quickly shutting its schools and public places while Philadelphia city didn’t and allowed a big parade to go ahead”.
Noting that, Some 50 to 100 million people died in the 1918 influenza pandemic – numbers that surpass the death toll of World War One, which was being fought at the same time. The 1918 flu virus infected one in every three people on the planet.
All in All it discussed from where it began, its spread, corona virus strains, immunity based survival , what approach is used to break the chain, WHO notifying policy, work load in hospitals, a call announcing threat of pandemic hitting the country by dr. wei liang, poor prompt decision making abilities by Italy and USA and the poor health care systems of under developed countries.
coronavirus family

The evolution of covid 19 from epidemic to pandemic have given us massive information, if you have been following this since it began, this first episode mainly covers the exact same story. And I believe that is fair enough as it’s the very first 20 minutes to “corona virus explained” series.
andrew cuomo
corona shutdown
Andrew Cuomo governer of new York on march 29,2020 said “at what point on the other side of the curve do you go back to work?” THE MAIN QUESTION!!  

WHO notice
“196 countries signed onto the WHO notifying policy but most never complied” FACTS REVEALED!!
world at risk
Appreciating points: 
Historical overview of viruses, replication mechanism, the story behind H1N1 (repeated though) and providing a deeper insight to encourage countries how social distancing worked in the past, proper statistical data and researches quoted.

My comments:
Being a health professional I didn’t find anything new  and interesting in “CORONA VIRUS EXPLAINED” EPISODE 1.
The max part has been focused on SOCIAL DISTANCING. [which is GOOD!]
leaders on covid 19
"the problem is that, if we're not careful that smoldering outbreak can last a long time"
However, if I have to rate this article as a common man who is not into reading research papers and digging the HOW’S, BUT and IFs, I will look it as an eye catching pictorial piece of knowledge, easy to understand and retain.

Another narration read;
“It isn’t china and it isn’t just bats”, 
and a contrast map showing most likely regions showing a new virus leap to humans. [Another repetition]

“we should have been more prepared..” 
– definitely after being in this situation #shouldhave!!
Parting shot: 
“we know what it takes and we have been on this earth since life began and a virus hasn’t beaten us yet.” 
– I hope you have said this in sarcasm!! #Hasn’t??

Let's see where it takes us! 
#recommended
VOX

Disclaimer:
All the image sources are from netflix documentary on "CORONAVIRUS EXPLAINED".

Written by: Dr.Shadab Kamal