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Editorial
. 2020 May 8;12(5):e12463.
doi: 10.15252/emmm.202012463. Epub 2020 May 4.

COVID-19, chronicle of an expected pandemic

Philippe J Sansonetti  1   2
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Editorial

COVID-19, chronicle of an expected pandemic

Philippe J Sansonetti. EMBO Mol Med. .

Abstract

What is COVID-19? What are the causes, parameters, and effects of this disease? What are the short- and long-term prospects? Philippe Sansonetti, Infectious disease specialist and Chief Editor of EMBO Molecular Medicine, explains why the fate of the epidemic is in our hands.

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