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Variants! The Shape-Shifting Challenge of COVID-19
Variants! The Shape-Shifting Challenge of COVID-19
Variants! The Shape-Shifting Challenge of COVID-19
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People live in a sea of viruses. All creatures are host to these small organisms, which are made up of small bits of genetic information. Viruses are possessed by a drive to survive, but in order to reproduce they must invade a living cell.


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Release dateFeb 15, 2021
ISBN9780578854243
Variants! The Shape-Shifting Challenge of COVID-19
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William A. Haseltine

William A. Haseltine PhD has a prolific career in science, business, and philanthropy around the world. He was a professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, and he is well known for his pioneering work on cancer, HIV/AIDS, and genomics. He has founded more than a dozen biotechnology companies, including Human Genome Sciences, and he serves on advisory boards for numerous international entities, from the Brookings Institution to the Council on Foreign Relations. He has authored more than 200 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals. William is currently Chair and President of ACCESS Health International, Inc., as well as Chairman of the Haseltine Foundation for Science and the Arts. "As a child, I lived through the polio epidemic which, like Covid, changed everyone's life. I knew then that I wanted to grow up and stamp out disease so everyone could live happy, healthy lives. Eventually, I became a scientist and over the years I managed to fulfill my dream. I developed new drugs to fight HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes and lupus, and I even developed a vaccine to prevent cats from getting leukemia. Now I help governments around the world improve the health of all people. I wrote this book to help parents, grandparents, and children-including my own grandchildren-protect themselves and the people they love from this new disease. I know someday normal life will return, even better than it was before." For more information about Dr. Haseltine, please visit www.WilliamHaseltine.com or follow him on Twitter (@WmHaseltine), LinkedIn (@WHaseltine), and Facebook (@WilliamHaseltineAuthor). For more about his foundation, ACCESS Health International, please visit www.accessh.org.

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