Scientific endeavors to better understand SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have progressed rapidly
. Within weeks of the virus emerging in humans, scientists had already identified it and sequenced the virus’s genome, giving researchers a target on which to train potential vaccines and treatments.
“This was very, very fast,” said Dr. Pardis Sabeti, professor at the Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University, during a TIME 100 talk in which experts and leaders shared how they’re finding hope during the global COVID-19 pandemic. “[Coronaviruses] are known to be highly infectious, so there wasn’t a moment to lose.”
Sabeti is a trailblazer in studying infectious diseases as they’re unfolding. During the 2014 Ebola outbreak, she and her team helped sequence the virus behind Ebola using data from patients who had been infected. “As soon as we got data, we just released it to the web and assumed that that’s what you should do in an outbreak,” she said. “It broke a lot of barriers, and we made a lot of collaborations around the world in the process.
Keep up to date on the growing threat to global health by signing up for our daily coronavirus newsletter. Another advance since the last big outbreaks—Ebola and Zika—is that the tools we have now are more sophisticated. “The technologies have been advancing at every step,” Sabeti says. “We’re at the point where we’re generating thousands and thousands of genome sequences of the virus very, very quickly. New diagnostics are emerging every day.
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