Investigate the origins of COVID-19
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: On 30 December 2019, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases notified the world about a pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China. Since then, scientists have made remarkable progress in understanding the causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), its transmission, pathogenesis, and mitigation by vaccines, therapeutics, and non-pharmaceutical interventions. Yet more investigation is still needed to determine the origin of the pandemic. Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable. Knowing how COVID-19 emerged is critical for informing global strategies to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks.
Source: Science
Authors: Jesse D. Bloom, Yujia Alina Chan, Ralph S. Baric, Pamela J. Bjorkman, Sarah Cobey, Benjamin E. Deverman, David N. Fisman, Ravindra Gupta, Akiko Iwasaki, Marc Lipsitch, Ruslan Medzhitov, Richard A. Neher, Rasmus Nielsen, Nick Patterson, Tim Stearns, Erik van Nimwegen, Michael Worobey, David A. Relman
Institutions: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Broad Institute, Harvard University, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, California Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, University of Toronto, Yale University, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Basel, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, University of Arizona, Stanford Medicine
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3162571967