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  • Scientists across the globe are gunning to understand the novel coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, and what makes it so contagious and deadly Several members of the coronavirus family infect humans: four cause the common cold, and two—SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV—have triggered dangerous epidemics The novel coronavirus’s closest kin is SARS-CoV, which jumped species from bats to civets to humans to cause the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic of 2002–3 That SARS outbreak infected just over 8,000 people The current coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 2 million people and killed more than 130,000 as of April 15, according to data from Johns Hopkins University “From a molecular perspective, figuring out why the virus is so much more transmissible than past viruses is where we should be looking right now,” says Robert Kirchdoerfer, a structural biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies how coronaviruses fuse with host cells While people infected
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  • C&EN_Global_Enterprise
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  • WHO
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  • What we know about the novel coronavirus’s proteins
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  • 2020

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