Episode S.1: Tanya Miura — The Virus Behind COVID-19

Meet Tanya Miura (bit.ly/35FhIQR), an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Idaho. Unlike many of us, Tanya knew about coronaviruses before the current pandemic. She has studied this family of viruses throughout her entire career. Although no one is an expert on COVID-19 yet, Tanya has been following the outpouring of research on the virus, the spread of the pandemic and some of the misconceptions surrounding COVID-19. Tanya and I discuss the specifics of the virus itself. Visit our website go.uidaho.edu/thevandaltheory​. Email us at [email protected]. Learn about Idaho’s premier research university, University of Idaho, at uidaho.edu. More U of I research: University of Idaho faculty are partnering with our sister institutions in the region to model intervention strategies across Idaho during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more at bit.ly/3bmZncz. Leda Kobziar with Natural Resources and Society used flying drones and vacuumed air onto filters to capture microbes found in smoke. Her team found more diversity of bacteria and fungi in the smoky air than in non-smoky air. Read more at bit.ly/3cpLawD. Tonia Dousay and Cassidy Hall from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction are partnering with Google to produce teachers who are ready to use technology in the classroom. Read more at bit.ly/2LkPeT2. Music: “Young Republicans” by Steve Combs (bit.ly/2PsMCpw) via freemusicarchive.org, not modified (bit.ly/2Ju7MQb). “Work Wonders” by Lobo Loco (bit.ly/3fn64OW) via freeusicarchive.org, not modified (bit.ly/3cpZAx7).