Link to Part 1 :
Link to Part 2 :
Part 1: Understanding Cells, Bacteria and Viruses
We’ll explore the nature of cells, bacteria and viruses including immunity and infection.
You will witness an exciting wrestling match with cells bacteria and viruses.
Part 2 : How to defend?
We’ll learn how to defend yourself in a simplified way.
Take a look at how hospitals test people using antibody tests and XRAYS.
We’ll build a mobile lab having ventilators, XRAY machines
Part 3: We fight back !!
We’ll learn about science of medicines and watch a real life play on the immune system organized by yours truly…
There are books resources and interesting facts in each episode
Useful links
(information on stem cells)
(what are bacteriophages)
(molecular mechanism of corona virus)
(description of how viruses work)
(molecular biology)
(special coronavirus issue)
Interesting facts
Viruses need hosts e.g bacteria/cellz to propagate, survive and thrive
Bacteria are 20x smaller than cells, and viruses are usually 120x smaller than bacteria
There are more than 100 types of cells
Some bacteria are bigger than most cells
Some nerve cellz are more than 1m long in adults
There are viruses that aim to kill bacteria, not cells
Sneeze speed is 160 km/h and cough speed is about 100 km/h
Chain reaction in numbers
3*3*3*3*3*3=729
4*4*4*4*4*4=1024
5*5*5*5*5*5=15625
Viruses can leap any distance but the chance of it leaping 1 meter is about 2% and the chance for 2 meters is .002%
The coronavirus can get inside a lake, then get in a cloud and get inside a droplet and there can be corona-rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is one advantage of coronavirus, lower Carbon Dioxide and Monoxide emissions
The Ebola outbreak is from 1981-now
The SARS outbreak was from 2002-2003
China is not the worst in corona-termz
Pfizer in Germany is having human drug trials for a vaccine
