Opinion: Preprints can fill a void in times of rapidly changing science
The rapid emergence in China of 2019-nCoV, a novel coronavirus, and its spread beyond its borders highlights the need for rapid scientific communication to better characterize transmissibility patterns, contagiousness, and illnesses and deaths caused by the pathogen.
Journals, of course, play a key role in disseminating peer-reviewed science, but their pace of publication takes time, which works against the rapid response required by a public health emergency.
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