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I'm currently at home recording this podcast, probably for the same reason that many of you are at home, the coronavirus.

Now, I'm one of the lucky ones. I can work from home, and I haven't been infected so far.

But in a small or large way, the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has affected and will affect everyone. Daily, I find myself scrolling through the news to try and get some sense

of what can be done. One thing is clear, though, front and center of the response to this pandemic

is the role of scientists.

Certainly not a dull moment to be in the business.

This is Jamie Lloyd Smith, an epidemiologist from the University of California, Los Angeles.

My academic brain is, you know, this is a fascinating event. This is the type of event that I've been studying and

thinking about for decades. And here it is. It's happening. And it is an exciting and fascinating

thing from that point of view. With that said, both from my own individual interest and from a

sort of global public health interest, it's also this unfolding catastrophe.

Here at nature, we're talking to scientists like Jamie every day from institutions all over the world.

In this podcast extra, we'll be hearing from Jamie and others like him as they battle to fight the outbreak.

What is it like to answer the global call for science in the wake of the coronavirus?

First off, we're going to Washington State in the United States, by many accounts the

epistenter of the US outbreak, and the lab of Lear-Sterita, a genomicist at the University

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