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The coronavirus has changed how we live, work, and think. View the pandemic through the eyes of two Academy scientists—Dr. Shannon Bennett, a virologist, and Dr. Peter Roopnarine, a paleontologist—who are studying the evolutionary origins of the virus in the race for a vaccine, and applying ecological modeling to inform strategies that will protect both public health and the economy.

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