In this lecture, I talk about some of the basics in COVID-19. My guest lecture about COVID-19 when the state of Pennsylvania was trying to train contact tracers within the state before there were any treatments of vaccine.

In this lecture, I was one of the first ones to describe in detail the various stages of disease and infection at the community level so that what was being presented in scientific evidence could then be translated to a way that people who may not have a medical or epidemiological background could ask the right questions to people who may have gotten infected. This was a rigorous training going into motivational interviewing techniques and also training in law, policy, and the physiological mechanisms of the virus.

When they had completed training in my class, they were not only ready to work as contact tracers,  ...