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Setting it Straight - Issue #9

Written by Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty

Across the world, the normal circulation of human beings has been massively disrupted by the fact that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is carried in and transmitted by us. International travel is way down, along with the local traffic of everyday life that takes us via highways, public transit systems, lanes and minor paths to the nooks and crannies of social interaction. Our workplaces, schools and universities, theatres and concert halls, cafes, clubs and pubs, and so forth, have been largely empty. Other essential forms of circulation have been less compromised: food supplies have been maintained and, though some shortages have led to what we might think of as minor “toilet paper wars”, that has been remedied as manufacturers switched their focus