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Lessons Learnt From the COVID-19 Pandemic
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 implica...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8365337/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34409008 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.694705 |
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author | Stenseth, Nils Chr. Dharmarajan, Guha Li, Ruiyun Shi, Zheng-Li Yang, Ruifu Gao, George F. |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-83653372021-08-17 Lessons Learnt From the COVID-19 Pandemic Stenseth, Nils Chr. Dharmarajan, Guha Li, Ruiyun Shi, Zheng-Li Yang, Ruifu Gao, George F. Front Public Health Public Health 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8365337/ /pubmed/34409008 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.694705 Text en Copyright © 2021 Stenseth, Dharmarajan, Li, Shi, Yang and Gao. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Stenseth, Nils Chr. Dharmarajan, Guha Li, Ruiyun Shi, Zheng-Li Yang, Ruifu Gao, George F. Lessons Learnt From the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Lessons Learnt From the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Lessons Learnt From the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Lessons Learnt From the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Lessons Learnt From the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Lessons Learnt From the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | lessons learnt from the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8365337/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34409008 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.694705 |
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