COVID-19: The Need for Secure Labs–and Their Risks

Share this on WhatsApp SM:  This is Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on April 3, 2020. I’m Steve Mirsky. The coronavirus now leaping across the globe made its first jump from wild animals—probably bats—to people. But now that virus is being cultivated in specially equipped biohazard labs, the same kind that are used to store … Continue reading COVID-19: The Need for Secure Labs–and Their Risks