Time to flatten the coronavirus curve

This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically.Media image courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library

Opinion

March 16, 2020

It all started on Dec. 31, 2019, when a pneumonia outbreak reported in Wuhan, China, was traced to a novel strain of the coronavirus. It's now known worldwide as the coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, which has so far killed at least 4,900 in more than 120 countries, and there are more than 130,...

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