COVID-19: A Call for Physical Scientists and Engineers
COVID-19: A Call for Physical Scientists and Engineers
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DOI：
10.1021/acsnano.0c02618
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发表时间：
2020-04-28
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影响因子：
17.1
通讯作者：
Huang, Jiaxing
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作者：
Huang, Haiyue;Fan, Chunhai;Huang, Jiaxing
COVID-19 大流行是超越领土、政治、意识形态、宗教、文化，当然还有学术界限的全球挑战之一。公共卫生和医疗保健工作者处于第一线，致力于遏制和减轻这种疾病的传播。尽管针对病毒感染的干预性生物和免疫反应似乎与通常用于无生命物体的物理科学和工程学相去甚远，但实际上可以而且应该做很多事情来帮助应对这场全球危机。在本视角中，我们将传染性呼吸道疾病和病毒的基础知识转化为物理科学和工程直觉，并通过此练习，我们提出了根据临床医生的经验确定的问题、假设和研究需求的示例。我们希望物理科学和工程领域的研究人员能够积极研究这些挑战，提出新的假设，定义新的研究领域，并与生物研究人员、医疗保健和公共卫生专业人员合作，创建以用户为中心的解决方案并告知公众，以便我们能够更好地应对与传染性呼吸道疾病传播和传播相关的诸多挑战。
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of those global challenges that transcends territorial, political, ideological, religious, cultural, and certainly academic boundaries. Public health and healthcare workers are at the frontline, working to contain and to mitigate the spread of this disease. Although intervening biological and immunological responses against viral infection may seem far from the physical sciences and engineering that typically work with inanimate objects, there actually is much that can-and should-be done to help in this global crisis. In this Perspective, we convert the basics of infectious respiratory diseases and viruses into physical sciences and engineering intuitions, and through this exercise, we present examples of questions, hypotheses, and research needs identified based on clinicians' experiences. We hope researchers in the physical sciences and engineering will proactively study these challenges, develop new hypotheses, define new research areas, and work with biological researchers, healthcare, and public health professionals to create user-centered solutions and to inform the general public, so that we can better address the many challenges associated with the transmission and spread of infectious respiratory diseases.