Coronavirus: global solutions to prevent a pandemic (original) (raw)
- CORRESPONDENCE
- 18 February 2020
By
- Charlotte H. Watts
- Patrick Vallance
- Christopher J. M. Whitty
- Government Department of Health and Social Care, London, UK.
Investment in research must be fast-tracked if we are to tackle the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19. We need greater insight into the transmission, progression and epidemiology of this respiratory illness. We need to know the risk factors for infection, the role of asymptomatic or mild infection and the nature of ‘super-spreaders’. We must determine disease seasonality and the viability of the virus in hot, humid environments, and improve estimates of death rates by age.
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Nature 578, 363 (2020)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00457-y