Why the coronavirus slipped past disease detectives
Groups of scientists tasked with identifying pandemic-prone microbes like the novel coronavirus were stretched too far and thin.
Charles Schmidt
Scientific American
Charles Schmidt is a science writer based in Portland, Maine, with over two decades of reporting experience, whose work has appeared in Scientific American, Undark, the Atlantic, Technology Review, Science Magazine, the Washington Post, Nature and many other publications. Charles has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Connecticut and a master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has previously worked as a toxicologist with an environmental consulting firm.
