Big Pharma — COVID pandemic

How epidemiology has shaped the COVID pandemic Nature’s third progress report, coming at the end of the pandemic’s first year, highlights key findings from epidemiology — from sounding the early alarm to following the impact of new variants. Measures such as mask-wearing have been used around the world to try to stop the spread of coronavirus.Credit: Chine Nouvelle/SIPA/Shutterstock Epidemiology is essential to the fight against any disease. The study of how diseases spread, and why, has loomed large in the struggle to understand, contain and respond to COVID-19. Analyses of data on infections and deaths, and projections from studies that...