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

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



A scanning electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus particles (orange) on a cell (blue). (NIAID/NIH/SPL)

Five pressing questions about COVID-19

To mark six months since the world first learnt about COVID-19, Nature runs through some of the key questions that researchers still don’t have answers to. The pandemic has catalysed a research revolution, as scientists, doctors and other scholars have worked at breakneck speed to understand the disease and the virus that causes it: SARS-CoV-2. But for every insight into COVID-19, more questions emerge and others linger.

Nature | 10 min read