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Cautious optimism

Author(s) -

H. Holden Thorp

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.abe0359

Subject(s) - covid-19 , optimism , coronavirus , immune escape , virology , biology , immune system , computational biology , disease , medicine , immunology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , philosophy , epistemology , outbreak , pathology

The first half of 2020 has seen extraordinary accomplishments in science. The international scientific community has described the genomic sequence of the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and structures of its important proteins, elucidated principal aspects of the immune response, identified neutralizing antibodies that can serve as therapeutics, and developed promising vaccines. There is much more to learn about COVID-19 and its cause, but the achievements so far are remarkable. So why doesn't this progress feel like the triumph that it is?

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