The scientists are still racing to solve the mysteries behind Coronavirus, from immunity to the role of genetics.
In late December 2019, reports emerged of a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, China. Six months and more than ten million confirmed cases later, the COVID-19 pandemic has become the worst public-health crisis in a century. More than 500,000 people have died worldwide. It has also catalysed a research revolution, as scientists, doctors and other scholars have worked at breakneck speed to understand COVID-19 and the virus that causes it: SARS-CoV-2.
Till now scientist have learnt how the virus enters and hijacks cells, how some people fight it off and how it eventually kills others, identified drugs that benefit the sickest patients, and many more potential treatments are in the works, developed nearly 200 potential vaccines — the first of which could be proved effective by the end of the year.
Recently an article was published by Nature, which include some of the key questions about #COVID19 that researchers are tackling and still don’t have answers to.
The article includes below questions and information about researches going around these questions.
- What’s the nature of immunity and how long does it last?
- Has the virus developed any worrying mutations?
- How well will a vaccine work?
- What is the origin of the virus?
- Why do people respond so differently?
It is an interesting article to know more about the happenings with Coronavirus.
Article link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01989-z
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