How could biologists from a variety of fields contribute to
studying this widespread disease and developing a
treatment, prevention, or cure ?

- Epidemiologists and bioinformaticians predict the waves of the pandemic

- Geneticists discover the molecular mechanisms involved in pathogen infection and replication

- Molecular biologists and biomedical researchers develop therapeutical strategies for treating these pathologies

Explanation:

The interdisciplinary teams are groups of professionals from different fields that work in a coordinated manner toward a common objective, in this case, for the treatment of infections caused by pathogenic organisms. An interdisciplinary team formed by members from different biology research areas (i.e., geneticists, virologists, bioinformaticists, etc) are able to work collaboratively with the same purpose to get results that are otherwise impossible.

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