I Just Can’t Get Enough (of Experts): The Numbers of COVID-19 and the Need for a European Approach to Testing

This article offers a reflection on the testing strategies deployed in the generation of epidemiological data in the European Union (EU). I will argue that, while in the early days of the pandemic, Member States proceeded to testing in a rather scattered way, the shortage of resources seems to have...

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Autor principal: MORVILLO, Marta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205547/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/err.2020.41
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spelling pubmed-72055472020-05-08 I Just Can’t Get Enough (of Experts): The Numbers of COVID-19 and the Need for a European Approach to Testing MORVILLO, Marta Eur J Risk Regul Articles This article offers a reflection on the testing strategies deployed in the generation of epidemiological data in the European Union (EU). I will argue that, while in the early days of the pandemic, Member States proceeded to testing in a rather scattered way, the shortage of resources seems to have acted as a driver of coordination, which is now increasingly being discussed at EU level. I will examine the legal and institutional framework supporting such embryonic coordination efforts and offer a preliminary assessment of their implications for a European approach to epidemiological knowledge-making. Cambridge University Press 2020-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7205547/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/err.2020.41 Text en © Cambridge University Press 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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