COVID-19 update: the first 6 months of the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping the world and will feature prominently in all our lives for months and most likely for years to come. We review here the current state 6 months into the declared pandemic. Specifically, we examine the role of the pathogen, the host and the environment along with the...

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Published in:Human genomics Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 48 - 9
Main Authors: Novelli, Giuseppe, Biancolella, Michela, Mehrian-Shai, Ruty, Erickson, Caroline, Godri Pollitt, Krystal J., Vasiliou, Vasilis, Watt, Jessica, Reichardt, Juergen K. V.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London BioMed Central 23.12.2020
Springer Nature B.V
BMC
Subjects:
Asymptomatic
Bioinformatics
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Coronavirus
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 - prevention & control
COVID-19 - virology
Delivery of Health Care - methods
Diabetes mellitus
Disease transmission
Genetic diversity
Genomics
Genomics of COVID-19: Molecular Mechanisms Going from Susceptibility to Severity of the Disease
Human Genetics
Humans
Immune system
Infections
International organizations
Leadership
Medical prognosis
Mutation
Pandemic
Pandemics
Pathogenesis
Pathogens
Politics
Population Surveillance - methods
Proteins
Proteomics
Public Health - methods
Review
SARS-CoV-2 - isolation & purification
SARS-CoV-2 - physiology
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Viral infections
Virus
Viruses
Virus
Pandemic
Politics
Coronavirus
Genomics
ISSN:1479-7364, 1473-9542, 1479-7364
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Summary:The COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping the world and will feature prominently in all our lives for months and most likely for years to come. We review here the current state 6 months into the declared pandemic. Specifically, we examine the role of the pathogen, the host and the environment along with the possible role of diabetes. We also firmly believe that the pandemic has shown an extraordinary light on national and international politicians whom we should hold to account as performance has been uneven. We also call explicitly on competent leadership of international organizations, specifically the WHO, UN and EU, informed by science. Finally, we also condense successful strategies for dealing with the current COVID-19 pandemic in democratic countries into a developing pandemic playbook and chart a way forward into the future. This is useful in the current COVID-19 pandemic and, we hope, in a very distant future again when another pandemic might arise.
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ISSN:1479-7364
1473-9542
1479-7364
DOI:10.1186/s40246-020-00298-w