The COVID-19 pandemic began in late 2019, when a cluster of patients began to experience shortness of breath and fever. This disease became a world pandemic by March 2020. The internship project focused on designing a plasmid to express the 3CLpro protein from the virus SARS-COV-2 in order to aid in a larger project that aims to research flavonoid compounds that inhibit the function of 3CLpro. …