The novel coronavirus COVID-19, as illustrated here against a backdrop of a DNA molecule, contains only approximately 30,000 base pairs in its entire sequence, yet is capable of infecting and killing millions of people across the globe. But science has better tools than ever before to combat this, and we’re about to engage all of them. (GETTY)

The 3 Ways Science Will Get Us Through The COVID-19 Pandemic

And how it might ensure that future generations won’t have to face anything like this ever again.

As of April 6, 2020, more than 1.3 million people worldwide have tested positive for COVID-19, with over 74,000 confirmed deaths so far. Those numbers are continuing to grow at an alarming rate, with over 70,000 new cases and 5,000 new deaths per day. However, there is a tremendous bright spot that remains undimmed: the power of our scientific knowledge to guide us through these difficult times.

We no longer live in an era where we have to rely on assumptions or superstitions to understand what’s occurring. We know what the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is. We know how it spreads through the human population. We know how to fight it, how to treat it, and how to minimize the death rate from it. It’s not only time to listen to what science tells us about it, but to understand the three ways a scientific world has enabled the best of humanity’s response to it.

Scientists working on antiviral drugs, such as illustrated here, are only able to do so because of the enormous successes of fundamental scientific research and curiosity-driven research conducted beforehand in fields that underpin what’s medically possible today. (GETTY)

1.) The modern frontiers. Within just weeks of the first reported case, scientists had not only identified the…