Two of Australia’s leading virus and vaccine experts — Professor Michael Wallach and Dr Lisa Sedger, both from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney — answer some common questions about the novel coronavirus.

The Q&A has also been released as a podcast episode here, and an edited transcript is below.

Read the entirety of AusDoc’s coronavirus coverage here

Sunanda Creagh: Hi, I’m Sunanda Creagh. I’m the digital storytelling editor at The Conversation, and I’m here today with two of Australia’s leading researchers on viruses and vaccines.