Preserve a Voucher Specimen! The Critical Need for Integrating Natural History Collections in Infectious Disease Studies

Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), causal agent of COVID-19, remains unknown. Unfortunately, similar problems exist other betacoronaviruses, and no vouchered specimens to corroborate species identification most these pathogens.