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Wat staat hierš¤: The Pandemic Supply Chain Network (PSCN) created by WHO, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, held its first meeting.š who.int/news/item/29-0ā¦
The mission of PSCN is āto create and manage a market network allowing for WHO and private sector partners to access any supply chain functionality and asset from end-to-end anywhere in the world at any scaleā.
29 januari 2020:
@WHO publishedĀ adviceĀ on the use of masks in the community, during home care and in health care settings.
13 February 2020
WHOās Digital Solutions Unit convened a roundtable of 30 companies in Silicon Valley to help build support for WHO to keep people safe and informed about COVID-19.
14 February 2020
Based on lessons learned from the H1N1 and Ebola outbreaks, WHO finalisedĀ guidelinesĀ for organizers of mass gatherings, in light of COVID-19.
The Mission stressed that āto reduce COVID-19 illness and death, near-term readiness planning must embrace the large-scale implementation of high-quality, non-pharmaceutical public health measuresā, such as case detection and isolation, contact tracing and monitoring/quarantine
Feb 20 @who: , in addition to the above, countries with imported cases and/or outbreaks were recommended to "immediately activate the highest level of national Response Management protocols to ensure the all-of-government and all-of-society approach needed to contain COVID-19".
29 February 2020
WHO publishedĀ considerationsĀ for the quarantine of individuals in the context of containment for COVID-19. This described who should be quarantined and the minimum conditions for quarantine to avoid the risk of further transmission.
3 March 2020
WHO issued aĀ callĀ for industry and governments to increase manufacturing by 40 per cent to meet rising global demand in response to the shortage of personal protective equipment endangering health workers worldwide.
This call fits within a broader scope of ongoing engagement with industry, through WHOāsĀ EPI-WIN networkĀ and via partners, such as theĀ International Chamber of CommerceĀ and World Economic Forum, the latter of which has supported COVID-19 media briefings at the regional level #WEF
7 March 2020
To mark the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases surpassing 100 000 globally, WHO issued aĀ statementĀ calling for action to stop, contain, control, delay and reduce the impact of the virus at every opportunity.
10 March 20 WHO, UNICEF and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) issuedĀ guidanceĀ outlining critical considerations and practical checklists to keep schools safe? with tips for parents and caregivers, as well as children and students themselves?
25 March 2020
The UNĀ Global Humanitarian Response PlanĀ was launched by the WHO Director-General, UN Secretary-General, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UNICEF Executive Director
And Dr Fauci said in 2021 he was "not convinced" the virus originated naturally. That was a shift from a year earlier, when he thought it most likely Covid had spread from animals to humans. bbc.com/news/world-asiā¦
China has hit back at suggestions the virus may have escaped from a laboratory by calling it a smear. State media have consistently accused the US government and Western media of spreading rumours about the source of the pandemic.
China has pushed another theory, suggesting the coronavirus may have entered Wuhan in food shipments of frozen meat from elsewhere in China or South-East Asia.
who.int/docs/default-sā¦ Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Routes of transmission
COVID-19 is transmitted via droplets and fomites during close unprotected contact between an infector and infectee. Airborne spread has not been reported for COVID-19 and it is not believed to be a major driver of transmission based on available evidence;
Updated report july20 states that before @who announced official #pandemic:š
As of 26 January 2021, WHOāsĀ landscape of COVID-19 candidate vaccinesĀ lists 63 candidate vaccines in clinical development and 173 in preclinical development.š¤
Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications nature.com/articles/s4159ā¦
During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway.
. We argue that that scientific methodology was not followed by the major figures in the acting authoritiesāor the responsible politiciansāwith alternative narratives being considered as valid, resulting in arbitrary policy decisions.
Fact Sheet: Activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology - United States Department of State
The U.S. government does not know exactly where, when, or how the COVID-19 virusāknown as SARS-CoV-2āwas transmitted initially to humans. We have not determined 2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-actā¦
whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - Dutch scientists hidden away in a top-security laboratory are seeking to create mutant flu viruses, dangerous work designed to prepare the world for a lethal pandemic by beating nature to it. reuters.com/article/us-birā¦
Doctors and nurses attend a training course for the treatment of the H7N9 virus at a hospital, where a H7N9 patient is being treated, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in this April 5, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Chance Chan/Files
The idea of engineering viral pathogens to be more deadly than they are already has generated huge controversy, amid fears that such viruses could leak out or fall into the wrong hands.
aim to genetically modify the virus to see what it needs to give it more of a deadly pandemic kick. That could make it more virulent more pathogenic and more transmissible capable of passing easily in droplets through the air from one mammal to another. reuters.com/article/us-birā¦
The highest level, BSL4, requires military guard and applies to pathogens for which there are no preventives or treatments.
The Erasmus team has one of Europeās most secure laboratories - a so-called Enhanced BSL3, or Bio-Safety Level 3, lab - the highest level of biosecurity for academic research and a facility in which agents can be studied that cause āserious or lethal diseaseā