COVID19

Virtual CROI 2020 dedicated a special session on COVID-19 to present state-of-the-art of what is known about COVID-19 and its causative pathogen, SARS-CoV-2. This special session focused on the epidemiology and efforts in China;

Antwerp, Belgium – 3 March 2020

The EU-funded Platform foR European Preparedness Against (Re-) emerging Epidemics (PREPARE) has decided to upgrade its response efforts to the novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic to Outbreak Research Response Mode 3,

BMJ Opinion, February 2020

The ongoing covid-19 outbreak has underlined the need for more research on the nature of panic and its drivers. The strategies we have for communicating about risk and engaging with communities are insufficient.

Antwerp, Belgium – 6 February 2020

On 30th January 2020, the Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak of 2019-nCoV a public health emergency of international concern.