Coronavirus: How science stepped up to take on COVID-19 in 2020

  • 3 years ago
In December 2019 doctors in Wuhan, China were treating dozens of patients with an unknown virus.

Experts would name the novel virus months later. It is hard to fathom that COVID-19, and the virus that causes it, were first named in the same year a vaccine was developed to stop the deadly virus.

Eric Sorensen explains how the pandemic paved the way for historic breakthroughs in medical science

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