COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and Export Controls.

Piers Millett, Paul Rutten

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Article in Health security. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Beyond Biosecurity by Taxonomic Lists: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities.Health security
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Piers MillettPiers Millett, PhD, is Vice President for Safety and Security, iGEM Foundation, Boston, MA; and a Senior Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Paul Rutten, MRes, is a PhD Student, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Paul RuttenPiers Millett, PhD, is Vice President for Safety and Security, iGEM Foundation, Boston, MA; and a Senior Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Paul Rutten, MRes, is a PhD Student, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Export controls are intended to prevent the proliferation of materials that could be misused to make biological weapons. They are not intended to stifle critical research and development in the midst of a pandemic. This article explores how and why export controls might apply to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019. It outlines the taxonomic and genetic factors associated with the current approach to export control lists and discusses how they lead to unnecessary ambiguity. The authors describe ways in which the current export control systems might be revised in the short, medium, and long term, including sequence, disease, and function-based approaches.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralBiological Warfare AgentsCommerceCOVID-19HumansSARS-CoV-2Biological Warfare AgentsCOVID-19Dual-use scienceExport controlsInternational coordinationSARS

Identifiers

PMID32816590

DOI10.1089/hs.2020.0048

PMCPMC7482123

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