isolated, and its complete genome has been sequenced
An interview with a late Canadian writer has resurfaced on social media and shows him making several false claims about COVID-19. Among them, he questions the existence of coronaviruses by saying they have never been isolated. This is not true, and such a claim reveals the writer’s lack of understanding of virology. A clip from the interview was posted to several Instagram accounts in mid-March (here, here, and here) and…