"Familiar yet Strange Viruses" Lecture

- Zhang Yongzhen (2023)

Alternative Caption: "Confession of a Virologist"

This lecture was given by Professor Zhang Yongzhen (1), the author of the first "SARS-CoV2 virus isolation" paper (Fan Wu et al,2020) (2) In January 2023.

The so-called virologists (or biochemists) are all brainless “machine operators” (or simply put “coders”).

(1): https://shorturl.at/X7giu (Zhang Yongzhen, Dual-appointed project leader, Fudan University)

(2): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2008-3 ( "A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China" - Fan Wu et al, 2020)

The following is the translation from the original video description in Chinese.

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 "'On January 5, 2020, Zhang Yongzhen's laboratory detected the genome of the new coronavirus.' What we saw in the news is this simple sentence, but behind it is a team's more than 20 years of research on the virus.

This speech is a bit long and has a certain threshold, but it is definitely worth spending some time to read it in its entirety.

Professor Zhang Yongzhen: In 2020, he was elected as one of the top 10 people of the year by Nature, one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. A professor at Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Fudan University) and Fudan University-affiliated Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center."

Source: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Fs4y1Y7as/