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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Photo courtesy the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Coronavirus

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (orange)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (green) cultured in the lab.

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