We need to talk about… Covid-19 and collaboration
Andy Couchman looks at the industry after Covid-19 and opportunities for collaboration. Go onto YouTube and you’ll find a 2015 Bill Gates talk forewarning about coronaviruses. But a quick trawl through the medical dictionaries reveals we have known about coronaviruses for many years before that – indeed the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic that started in 2002 was described in the Collins Dictionary of Medicine as ‘a new coronavirus’. In fact, you have to go back to 1931 to find the first mention of coronaviruses (in chickens in North Dakota, USA) and it wasn’t until the 1960s that the…
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