Ahmadi Women Scientist Association

The following article was written by By Nusrat Sharif, PhD and published on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Press and Media Office website on April 9, 2020.

Nusrat Sharif, PhD is currently working as Senior Principal Scientist in Inflammation & Immunology Research Unit at Pfizer Inc, Cambridge, MA. She is serving as President of Ahmadi Women Scientists Association USA.

What began as a viral pneumonia with an unusual outbreak in the city of Wuhan, China in December 2019 has now rippled into a global pandemic of shocking proportions. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its rapid spread has transcended into an unforeseeable calamity, upending the lives of billions of people worldwide, devastating economies, afflicting young and old, rich and poor, of every race, in almost every continent…(read more)