How the coronavirus pulled a fast one on science – Wall Street Journal

The new coronavirus is a killer with a crowbar, breaking and entering human cells with impunity. It hitchhikes across continents carried on coughs and careless hands, driven by its own urgent necessity to survive.
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Less than a year after being discovered, the coronavirus has worked its way across the globe, infecting nearly 28-million and killing nearly 900,000 people worldwide. In March of this year, the virus was declared a pandemic and many countries (including South Africa) retreated into a lockdown, in an attempt to minimise its spread. Although scientists know a lot more about Covid-19, and have been working hard at finding a way to contain and treat it, the virus that shut down the world remains mysterious. Recently, a Hong Kong man was reinfected by the virus, despite having contracting it months earlier. As the virus slowly mutates and continues to infect individuals around the world, scientists and medical experts are facing a far smarter opponent than previously thought. – Jarryd Neves

'Really diabolical': inside the coronavirus that outsmarted science

By Robert Lee Hotz and Natasha Khan

The new coronavirus is a killer with a crowbar, breaking and entering human cells with impunity. It hitchhikes across continents carried on coughs and careless hands, driven by its own urgent necessity to survive.

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