Dear Editor, Since the beginning of the pandemic in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and the rapid spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus, until May 31, 2022, there were 6.9 million reported deaths and 17.2 million estimated deaths from COVID-19...
However, the search for an HIV vaccine that would contribute to a durable end to the HIV pandemic remains elusive. Here, we draw from the US government experience and highlight lessons learned from COVID-19 vaccine development, which include the importance of public-private partnerships, ...
However, severity and mortality were substantially lower in the 2009 influenza A pandemic than in the current COVID-19 pandemic (Faust and Del Rio, 2020, Saunders-Hastings and Krewski, 2016). Human contact has been far greater with the H1N1 influenza A virus subtype than with other influenza...
Data curation during a pandemic and lessons learned from COVID-19doi:10.1038/s43588-020-00015-6Moritz U. G. KraemerSamuel V. ScarpinoVukosi MarivateBernardo GutierrezBo XuGraham LeeJared B. HawkinsCaitlin RiversDavid M. PigottRebecca Katz...
Six months into the pandemic, and Africa has defied most doomsday scenarios, but not everything is cheery. What lessons can be learned?
What characterizes these organizations? What creates this kind of resilience? And how can organizations apply the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic so that in the “next normal” they remain resilient, flat, and fast? One answer is agility. We spoke with executives at...
The COVID-19 pandemic brought home to all countries the importance of integrating planning for emergencies, including beyond natural disasters, into sector plans and budgets. As climate change exacerbates the frequency and severity of natural disasters, the probability that countries will have to confro...
More than any of these past events, the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the degree to which our global supply chains are fragile and lethargic in their ability to respond to unexpected changes in demand. Although disruptions are inevitable, we need to plan and respond differently if we’re to ensur...
The COVID-19 global pandemic has upended nearly every medical discipline, dramatically impacted patient care, and has had far-reaching effects on surgeon education. In many areas of the country, elective orthopaedic surgery has completely stopped to ensure that resources are available for the ...
Although the COVID-19 pandemic is still active worldwide, health care industry leaders and regulators have already begun to think about how to implement post-pandemic changes to health care delivery based on lessons learned during the global emergency of the past year a...