Pandemic-Era Research Will Pay Off for Years
The COVID research infrastructure will help fight all sorts of pathogens
Britt Glaunsinger is a molecular virologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
The COVID research infrastructure will help fight all sorts of pathogens
About a year ago, SARS-CoV-2 (which wasn’t called that yet) was just beginning to emerge in a cluster of cases inside China. We know what has happened since then, but it bears repeating: there have been 69 million cases and more than 1.5 million deaths globally as of December 10, 2020, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center...
How does SARS-CoV-2 sneak into our body? What can our immune system do and how can the virus sometimes defeat it? How do the leading drug and vaccine candidates work? Will the virus plague us forever?...
What scientists know about the inner workings of the pathogen that has infected the world
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