While the number of people infected with the new coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 continues to grow every day and the epidemic peak is still unannounced, science is in full swing. Virologists, geneticists, doctors, epidemiologists and modellers ... There are hundreds of people around the world who have put their work aside to advance knowledge about the virus, establish predictive models of the epidemic and, of course, find a cure. Because time is running out: still completely unknown two months ago, the microbe has already infected more than 73,300 people and has killed nearly 1,900 since its emergence.
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"From a scientific point of view, the situation is not easy to follow as things are going so fast," says Olivier Terrier, researcher at the International Center for Infectious Disease Research in Lyon (Ciri). For several weeks, the scientist has spent his days in the highly secure Ciri laboratory, isolating the virus from samples taken from
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