Forbes
March 16, 2020
[…] At the same time, the race is now on to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, ahead of any second wave of infections later this year.
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Last week among the COVID-19 headlines, David Attenborough made a plea calling for Deep Ocean Seabed Mining to be banned. One of the reasons he cited was the importance of deep water corals and microscopic microbes at the bottom of the ocean.
It turns out, these are extremely valuable for modern medicine, including addressing coronaviruses.
A protein from an ocean seabed algae found among coral reefs was revealed to show activity against another coronavirus known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS.