How did scientists tackle Covid so quickly? Because they pulled together | Charlotte Summers
From observational studies to rapid development of vaccines, knowledge-sharing was a key feature of science in 2020The raw numbers around Covid-19 are simply incredible when you consider that this was a disease almost no one had heard of in December 2019. At the time of writing, this year about 240,000 people in the UK have been admitted to hospitalwith Covid-19, and more than 70,000 people have had Covid-19 listed as a cause of death on theirdeath certificate.I began 2020 anxious about the reports emerging from Wuhan: they seemed to imply an asymptomatic transmission of a respiratory pathogen that was serious enough to put sufferers into intensive care units. I am a clinical academic with specialist training in respiratory and intensive care medicine; I also lead a research programme that focusses on the lung inflammation caused respiratory infections – to me, and others, what was being reported looked like serious trouble.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Authors: Charlotte Summers Tags: Coronavirus Science Infectious diseases Medical research World news NHS UK news Health Microbiology Source Type: news
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