Abstract:The year 2020 proved that the evolution of science in the last century has transformed the threats caused by microorganisms into a challenge that can be overcome. In the last pandemic that devastated the planet, the influenza pandemic in 1918, the best scientists in the world were unable to identify the virus, many measures adopted were insufficient, and attempts to develop an effective vaccine proved useless. In this COVID-19 pandemic, a year after the first cases were identified in China, the sharing of scie… Show more
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