The BioPhysicist Who Crunched The Virus Numbers And Made Some Accurate Predictions

Nobel laureate Michael Levitt, an American-British-Israelibiophysicist who teaches structural biology at Stanford University andspends much of his time in Tel Aviv, unexpectedly became a householdname in China, offering the public reassurance during the peak of thecountry’s coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Levitt did not discover atreatment or a cure, just did what he does best: crunched the numbers.The statistics led him to the conclusion that, contrary to the grimforecasts being branded