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The fight against Sars-CoV-2 in 2021: What’s next?
Metagenomics applied in a rapid clinical setting was unthinkable just a few years ago but now can be deployed by any hospital with local deployment.
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With more than 1.8 million Covid-19-related deaths worldwide and more than 350,000 deaths in the United States alone, the battle against SARS-CoV-2 is raging on into 2021.
In 2020, we’ve certainly learned that better infrastructure for detection is critical in fighting diseases like Covid-19 – and metagenomics are key to better understanding and ultimately better treatment. As a consulting infectious disease physician and frontline worker, I’ve seen the battle first-hand and there is still a lot of work to do. I was lucky to get the recently after seeing patients but we are still a long way off from controlling this pandemic. However, I’ve also seen that we’re getting closer to more effectively fighting this battle and new tools are giving us the cha