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Six months of coronavirus: the mysteries scientists are still racing to solve

From immunity to the role of genetics, Nature looks at five pressing questions about COVID-19 that researchers are tackling.
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In late December 2019, reports emerged of a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, China, a city of 11 million people in the southeastern province of Hubei. The cause, Chinese scientists quickly determined, was a new coronavirus distantly related to the SARS virus that had emerged in China in 2003, before spreading globally and killing nearly 800 people.

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Nature 583, 178-179 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01989-z

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