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Covid-19: The Postgenomic Pandemic

Covid-19: The Postgenomic Pandemic

Pennington, Hugh

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ISBN10: 1509552154
ISBN13: 9781509552153
Publisher: Polity Pr
Published: Nov 7 2022
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

Within days of the first reports of patients suffering from a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, scientists in China had produced a complete genetic sequence of the virus and confirmed that it was a novel SARS-like coronavirus. The genetic sequence was deposited in a public database, making the genetic code available to scientists anywhere in the world. The result was that weeks before the WHO declared the outbreak a global public health emergency and months before COVID-19 was formally designated a pandemic, virologists around the world were already studying the protein spikes on the virus and designing vaccines, which were developed much more quickly, and turned out to be much more effective, than even the most optimistic had predicted. All of this was possible because a biological revolution had taken place a decade earlier: the world had moved into the postgenomic era.

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