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COVID-19, the Ubiquitous National Security Threat: Lessons Learned Around the Globe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2021

Shannon Havlicak Grondel
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Today is October 1, 2020. In this moment, over 34 million bodies—that we know of—have hosted a deadly virus and more than one million of those bodies have succumbed to the strain of their unwelcome, malignant guest. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—genetically related to, yet different from the coronavirus responsible for the 2003 SARS outbreak—is the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The virus first materialized in Wuhan, Hubei province, China as early as November 17, 2019, and quickly escalated from a small cluster of cases of what appeared to be pneumonia to a global pandemic by March 11, 2020.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , Summer 2021 , pp. 66 - 79
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