This year has seen an unprecedented worldwide pandemic that has been brought on by the rise of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which results in COVID-19 (coronavirus 2019) infections. COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of our lives and has required the world to rapidly mobilize to address all aspects of diagnosis and treatment of this disease. COVID-19 has brought to light the challenges of managing a completely novel infectious disease with existing diagnostics and therapeutics that were insufficient to stem the spread of COVID-19. Thus, the resources allotted toward research and development and the global cooperation of governments, scientists, and clinicians to address COVID-19 required a pace of innovation in healthcare that has never before been observed in order to address this new disease. As a result of this effort, innovations in technology to better understand, detect, and treat COVID-19 continue to be reported every day. Here at SLAS Technology, we felt it was important to highlight these advances in technology that have been made to better address all aspects of COVID-19 detection and treatment. We present here a special issue that reports how technology has been used to address COVID-19.

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应对 COVID-19 的技术进步

今年，严重急性呼吸系统综合症冠状病毒 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 的兴起引发了前所未有的全球大流行，导致 COVID-19（冠状病毒 2019）感染。COVID-19 影响了我们生活的方方面面，要求全世界迅速动员起来，解决这种疾病诊断和治疗的方方面面。COVID-19 揭示了使用不足以阻止 COVID-19 传播的现有诊断和治疗方法来管理一种全新传染病的挑战。因此，分配给研究和开发的资源以及政府、科学家和临床医生的全球合作以应对 COVID-19 需要医疗保健领域的创新步伐，这是前所未有的，以应对这种新疾病。由于这项努力，每天都有关于更好地了解、检测和治疗 COVID-19 的技术创新的报道。在这里SLAS 技术，我们认为强调这些技术进步非常重要，这些进步旨在更好地解决 COVID-19 检测和治疗的各个方面。我们在这里提出一个特刊，报告如何使用技术来应对 COVID-19。