Fauci and Panel Discuss Ongoing Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Lessons Learned

Until the 21st century, coronaviruses have largely been “inconsequential pathogens” because they cause the common cold and the world had been dealing with them for decades and decades, wrote Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and colleagues in JAMA back in January 23, 2020.¹

However, since the start of the 21st century, there have been 3 highly pathogenic coronaviruses: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which circulated from 2002 to 2003; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus...