Dr David E. Martin PhD - Covid Summit - European Union Parliament May 2023

Most of you don't know that Coronavirus as a model of a pathogen was isolated in 1965.
Coronavirus was identified in 1965 as one of the first infectious, replicatable viral models that could be used to modify a series of other experiences of human condition.
It was isolated once upon a time associated with the common cold.
But what's particularly interesting about its isolation in 1965 was that it was immediately identified as a pathogen that could be used and modified for a whole host of reasons.
And you heard me correctly, that was 1965.
56 years ago, the overnight success of a pathogen that's been 56 years in engineering, and I want that to chill with all of you - Dr David E Martin