A PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern) is defined by <a href="https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/annex-2-of-the-international-health-regulations-%282005%29" target="_blank">WHO</a> as "an extraordinary event which is...
The beginning of 2020 has seen the emergence of COVID-19 outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus. The majority of the cases were epidemiologically linked to seafood, poultry and live wildlife market (Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market) in Jianghan...
Over 4 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered globally, but the virus continues to spread even in countries with very high rates of vaccination such as Israel.
Sufficiently widespread vaccination (and natural antibodies from...
There is an extensive history of laboratory biosecurity incidents, including at high-security laboratories. One paper by Manheim and Lewis (2021) found 71 incidents involving "either accidental or purposeful exposure to, or infection by, a highly...
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The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by...
On 2020-01-30, the World Health Organization announced a Public Health Emergency of International Concern regarding the COVID-19 in China. They declared that the outbreak had become a pandemic on 2021-03-11 . The declarations are typically renewed...
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The United States is one of a handful of countries to still prohibit entry of unvaccinated foreign nationals. The vaccine requirement for foreign nationals was imposed by President Biden on October 25, 2021 by presidential proclamation and has no...
A key part of the response to the next pandemic caused by a novel pathogen will be how quickly a vaccine can be successfully tested and authorized by FDA so that it can subsequently be widely deployed.
For context, during the COVID-19 pandemic there...
A key part of the response to the next pandemic caused by a novel pathogen will be how quickly a treatment can be successfully tested and approved by FDA so that it can subsequently be widely deployed.
For context, during the COVID-19 pandemic there...
As of mid January 2021, more than a thousand people are dying in the UK with COVID-19 every day.
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