Note from the Publisher: This piece belongs to the Merion West Legacy series, referring to articles and poems published between 2016 up to Spring 2025.

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Principles and the Virus

By Logan Chipkin

LILLE, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 20: Adeline Danneels (L), CNRS technician and Sandrine Belouzard, virologist and researcher, at work in high-level P3 biosafety security laboratory at the Pasteur Institute of Lille on February 20, 2020 in Lille, France. The research institute has sequenced the genome of Coronavirus 2019-nCoV using blood samples taken from the first confirmed French cases of the virus. The institute’s scientists will now focus on developing how the virus works, treatments and a possible vaccine. (Photo by Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images)

“I know of no law forbidding our vanquishing of COVID-19; the knowledge of how to do so is therefore discoverable, and our foe is extinguishable.”

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