As COVID-19 continues to spread, the urgency of the hunt for effective therapeutics and vaccines has likewise grown. As with past outbreaks, animal models will be an important component of efforts to understand how the SARS-CoV-2 virus causes disease, and how best to defeat it.

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动员动物模型抵抗大流行。

随着COVID-19的继续传播，寻找有效治疗剂和疫苗的紧迫性也日益增加。与过去的暴发一样，动物模型将成为了解SARS-CoV-2病毒如何引起疾病以及如何最好地战胜疾病的努力的重要组成部分。