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# The Doctors Decoding COVID-19
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/the-doctors-decoding-covid-19/
- Published: 2020-10-13T00:44:46.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-13T00:44:46.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[The Coronavirus Unveiled: Microscopic Images of SARS-CoV-2 - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-unveiled.html?ref=birchtree.me)

> While the past few months have delivered a flood of data about the virus, some studies have made it clear that it will take years to make sense of SARS-CoV-2.

And:

> But scientists can’t even begin to guess at these possibilities, because no one has yet spotted the mini-spike in the wild. And the same will be true for the other new genes, Dr. Stern-Ginossar’s team has found.  
> “Each one will require additional work to figure out what they’re doing,” she said. “Biology takes time.”

Sometimes it’s nice to step back from all the politics around COVID-19 and learn about what the scientists working hard on figuring out how this thing works.