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ArticleFrontiers in public health2021

Lessons Learnt From the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Nils Chr Stenseth, Guha Dharmarajan, Ruiyun Li, Zheng-Li Shi, Ruifu Yang, George F Gao

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Nils Chr StensethCentre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Guha DharmarajanSavannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Aiken, SC, United States.
Ruiyun LiCentre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Zheng-Li ShiCAS Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
Ruifu YangState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China.
George F GaoCAS Key Laboratory of Pathogen Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has been characterized by unprecedented rates of spatio-temporal spread. Here, we summarize the main events in the pandemic's timeline and evaluate what has been learnt by the public health community. We also discuss the implications for future public health policy and, specifically, the practice of epidemic control. We critically analyze this ongoing pandemic's timeline and contrast it with the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak. We identify specific areas (e.g., pathogen identification and initial reporting) wherein the international community learnt valuable lessons from the SARS outbreak. However, we also identify the key areas where international public health policy failed leading to the exponential spread of the pandemic. We outline a clear agenda for improved pandemic control in the future.

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COVID-19PandemicsDisease OutbreaksHumansPublic HealthSARS-CoV-2COVID-19epidemiologypandemicpublic healthSARS-CoV

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PMID34409008
PMCPMC8365337

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