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Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I'm Dr Andrew Wilner, and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr William Li, president and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation. Welcome, Dr Li.
William W. Li, MD: Thank you, Dr Wilner. It's a pleasure to be here.
Wilner: Thanks for joining us. I saw that you are one of the coauthors of a paper this month in the New England Journal of Medicine that has to do with angiogenesis and COVID-19. This is a pretty hot topic. Because you're one of the authors, you know more about it than anybody else. I'm glad to have you here to speak with us. So tell us about the paper. What did you find?
Li: When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, I, like many scientists, immediately started to pivot from whatever we were doing at the time to trying to tackle this enigma which, in 200,000 years of human history, humans have never encountered.
There's been so much confusion and some misinformation. I think that this is where medical science really steps in to take command and control, because while we don't know everything about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, every layer of the onion we peel back gives us an additional piton on a rock wall to understanding this disease.
