Efforts to monitor and combat the coronavirus outbreak have produced a barrage of new information daily, some of which can be contradictory or incorrect. A group of University of Maine professors and students is helping the city of Bangor Public Health & Community Services Department navigate the pandemic by sending updates backed by science that […]
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Melissa Maginnis, associate professor of microbiology, talked with WVII (Channel 7) about origins of the COVID-19/coronavirus name. The World Health Organization named the disease COVID-19 — CO for corona, VI for virus, D for disease and 19 for 2019, the year it started. Maginnis, a virologist, said COVID-19 refers to the disease caused by the […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Melissa Maginnis, an assistant professor of microbiology at the University of Maine, about how she’s teaching her kids about the novel coronavirus. “We’ve seen the emergence of several of these viruses in the past couple decades, like SARS and MERS. It was predicted there would be another one that […]
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