The battle against the unknown: Covid -19

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Marbel Torres Arias

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The era in which we live today has been one of the most difficult episodes that humanity has gone through, COVID-19, a pandemic that threatened the tranquility of every individual on this planet and became an insecure place that limited the link between human beings and the invisible. For this reason, the world we knew gave an eminent sign of the comforts and value of what we possess. Society had the need to modify the way of life and a new normality. In this article I will indicate some aspects that we did not know from our worst enemy, the virus and that the armies fought several battles in knowing and investigating from the neutralization of the virus to its modifications, developing one of the most epic battles that we have faced and against the clock.

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The battle against the unknown: Covid -19. (2022). Revista Vínculos ESPE, 7(1), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.24133/vinculosespe.v7i1.2293
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Marbel Torres Arias, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE

Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida y Agricultura 

Grupo de investigacion de Nanotecnologia CENCINAT

Grupo de investigacion de Sanidad Animal y Humana GISAH

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The battle against the unknown: Covid -19. (2022). Revista Vínculos ESPE, 7(1), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.24133/vinculosespe.v7i1.2293

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