Practically every aspect of modern life has been upended by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that merged in 2019. Yet, despite substantial disruptions to the day-to-day practices of caring for patients and
performing research, the biomedical community as a whole has rallied and adapted.Through creativity, collaboration across disciplines,open communication, and a commitment to the scientific enterprise, the amountof knowledge generated in merely 1 year on an entity that was previously unknown to humans was, to use the word-of-the-year for 2020, unprecedented.
