{"id":117,"date":"2020-01-28T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/doid-staff\/?p=117"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:21:11","slug":"coronavirus-dr-john-tregoning-discusses-wuhan-outbreak-in-new-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/doid-staff\/2020\/01\/28\/coronavirus-dr-john-tregoning-discusses-wuhan-outbreak-in-new-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Dr John Tregoning discusses Wuhan outbreak in new blog post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-119\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/doid-staff\/files\/2020\/01\/JTvirus.jpg\" alt=\"Virus graphic and Dr John Tregoning \" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-medicine\/2020\/01\/24\/what-is-the-wuhan-coronavirus-2019-ncov-and-what-do-we-know-about-it-so-far\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a new post<\/a> for the Imperial Medicine blog, Dr John Tregoning spoke to the School of Public Health\u2019s Professor Steven Riley about the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/194815\/coronavirus-outbreak-china-have-infected-thousands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0coronavirus outbreak<\/a> that recently began in Wuhan, China.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Dr Tregoning and Professor Riley explore some of the key questions being raised about the virus, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is a coronavirus?<\/li>\n<li>How is it spreading?<\/li>\n<li>Why don&#8217;t we have a working vaccine?<\/li>\n<li>How can we reduce our risk of catching it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-medicine\/2020\/01\/24\/what-is-the-wuhan-coronavirus-2019-ncov-and-what-do-we-know-about-it-so-far\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the post in full on the Imperial Medicine blog.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new post for the Imperial Medicine blog, Dr John Tregoning spoke to the School of Public Health\u2019s Professor Steven Riley about the\u00a0coronavirus outbreak that recently began in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275632,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-updates","category-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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