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Sixth appointment of the cycle Waiting for Genoa. The Covid Wave: understanding to react, a path of approach to the eighteenth edition of the Genoa Science Festival which will be held from October 22nd to November 1st and which will have a section dedicated to the theme of the new coronavirus. With the virologist Giorgio Palù, past president of the European Society of Virology and professor emeritus of the University of Padua, we retrace the history of coronaviruses and the characteristics of this large family of pathogens which includes the seven viruses of human interest, including the four types responsible for the common cold (229E, OC43, NL63 and AKU1) and the three most fearsome types (SARS, MERS and SARS-CoV-2) capable of causing a serious respiratory syndrome. Professor Palù also explains why the jump between species almost always occurs in two phases, through the passage in an intermediate host and which significant mutations have been found so far in the new coronavirus. - Follow Il Bo Live on social media! / ilbolive ► Facebook / ilbolive ► Twitter / ilbolive ► Instagram