Virulence, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16(1)
Published: April 8, 2025
Since winter 2019, SARS-CoV-2 has emerged, spread, and evolved all around the globe. We explore 4 y of evolutionary epidemiology this virus, ranging from applied public health challenges to more conceptual biology perspectives. Through review, we first present spread lethality infections it causes, starting its emergence in Wuhan (China) initial epidemics world, compare virus other betacoronaviruses, focus on airborne transmission, containment strategies ("zero-COVID" vs. "herd immunity"), explain phylogeographical tracking, underline importance natural selection epidemics, mention within-host population dynamics. Finally, discuss how pandemic transformed (or should transform) surveillance prevention viral respiratory identify perspectives for research COVID-19.
Language: Английский