COVID: Viruses/Vaccines—

About the Book

COVID-19 outbreak has become a worldwide pandemic. This book “CO-VI-D: Viruses/Vaccines” provides new and unique approach to the discussion of viruses and vaccines in the recent advent of Corona virus. COVID-19 disease is a novel viral disease that was first identified in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced its official name, Coronavirus disease 2019, abbreviated as COVID-19; ‘CO’ stands for ‘Corona’, ‘VI’ stands for ‘Virus’, and ‘D’ stands for ‘Disease’. Globally, more than 10 million people are reported to be infected by COVID-19 (WHO Coronavirus Disease Dashboard, 2020).

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, USA, 2020) (provided guidelines on how to reduce the risk of infection. It has been discovered that some people get really very sick and die, whereas to some people nothing happens even though they test positive for the virus.

Through this book, we intend to explore etiology, development, and treatment of the COVID-19 disease. The specific topics will give details that could help in understanding symptoms, immunity, worldwide spread and treatments so that we could beat this invisible dangerous beast, the COVID-19.

About the Author

Madan L. Nagpal, PhD, FLS, is a research associate professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina and a research chemist at the Dorn Veterans Medical Center, Columbia, South Carolina, USA, for ten-plus years. He has published forty research articles, one book chapter, and edited 1 book. He was awarded research and productive scholarship in 1990 by the University South Carolina. He was funded by the grants as co-investigator by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and VA Merit Review. His contributions include gene regulation in steroid hormone biosynthesis and the characterization of Bacillus species. He is a member of the American Society of Cell Biology, American Association of Advancement of Science, the Endocrine Society, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, International Who’s Who Professionals, and Marquis Who’s Who in America.