Is Covid-19 the most difficult virus you’ve ever worked (compared to working against other viruses)

Question: Is Covid-19 the most difficult virus you’ve ever worked (compared to working against other viruses)
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  COVID-19,
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Asked by anon-256590 to Angela on 13 Jul 2020.
- Angela Downie answered on 13 Jul 2020:
  
  Hi Miguel!
  So I am not actually a virologist, which means I don’t really work with viruses! Scientist tend to work on really specific things and only a few of us work on viruses. I have been lucky enough to help with Covid-19 research though, specifically I have been looking at different conditions for covid testing so we can improve the methods and have more options. However, for this, I was looking at only one part of the virus, the RNA which is what contains all the information for the virus… But all living things have RNA and working with viral RNA is just the same as working with human RNA!

modlucia commented on 14 Jul 2020:

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