From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome

into another edition of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. On this episode, we'll talk with Silas

Johnson, Associate Professor of Biology, here at Hillsdale, about the coronavirus. Sally Pipes discusses

her new book, False Premise, False Promise. Dan Copeland from Hillsdale's

Education Department on why we still need to know how to diagram a sentence. And Wilfred

McLeigh will hear from his recent lecture at the Kirby Center on Land of Hope. He also is

teaching a new Hillsdale College online course. First, we're joined by Dr. Silas Johnson, Associate Professor of Biology

at Hillsdale College. Dr. Johnson, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me, Scott. Appreciate it.

We're talking about the coronavirus today, which many people are talking about, or at least

hearing about in recent weeks. Put simply, what is the coronavirus

that we're hearing in the news?

Yes, it has been big in the news.

And as the college's local virologist,

I've been getting a lot of inquiries across campus.

Popular man in town.

So many emails over the last couple weeks.

Yeah, so this new novel coronavirus, which is in the news now,

is, it represents the third coronavirus, which has emerged in human populations over the last 20 years.

And the other two most recent coronaviruses that have been in the news include SARS and MERS coronavirus.

And so this one represents a new, distinct coronavirus that now is impacting human health.

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