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Biophysics and bioengineering

Biophysics and bioengineering

COVID-19: how physics is helping the fight against the pandemic

19 Mar 2020
Taken from the April 2020 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the title "Fighting a pandemic".

The latest novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has reached pandemic status. While health workers and governments do their part, scientists are trying to understand the virus and develop vaccines and treatments. Jon Cartwright looks at how physics plays an important role in the fight

Doctors in Wuhan
Zhao Jianping (third from right), a respiratory and critical care specialist, instructs his colleagues at a severe case ward in Wuhan, China on 18 February 2020. (Courtesy: Xinhua/Shutterstock)
It probably originated in one of the several species of horseshoe bat found throughout east and sout

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Jon Cartwright is a freelance science journalist based in Bristol, UK
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