The team creates a model of the virus causing an epidemic to better understand how it behaves and affects human cells. The novel virus changes continually, so it is difficult for them to create a vaccine.

Dr. Kelso explains how infection can spread.

In this clip, Vox explains how soap can kill the coronavirus and how important it is to wash hands.

A worldwide epidemic starts when humans cut down trees in an area inhabited by bats, forcing them to relocate. One bat carrying the virus dropped a piece of banana into a pig pen. One pig consumed the banana piece, and when it was slaughtered, the virus spread to the butcher's hands. The butcher did not wash his hands before he went to shake the hand of a guest, thus spreading the disease to the guest, who then spread it to other people.

In this clip, Vox discusses the spread of the coronavirus into humans and how wet markets are apart of that spread.