Coronavirus in song

The World

We’ve seen visuals of the novel coronavirus — a ball of spikes. Now, we can hear the virus thanks to one researcher at MIT. Host Marco Werman speaks with Markus Buehler, the engineer behind the musical rendition of the coronavirus. 

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