A year ago, scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute in Melbourne were hard at work over the Australia Day holiday trying to isolate a new virus that was causing an epidemic in Wuhan.
I remember that first news conference on COVID-19, which was spoken of as an intriguing disease from a distant land. Little could we guess how this little piece of RNA wrapped in a protein would redefine our year.
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Shitij Kapur is dean of the faculty of medicine, dentistry and health sciences at the University of Melbourne.
