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Pandemic responses: Planning to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and prepare for future outbreaks
In the first quarter of 2020, the emergence of COVID-19 disease and the infectious agent SARS-CoV-2 transitioned from a serious respiratory disease outbreak in Wuhan, China to a global pandemic of almost universal concern and risk to health. Public health authorities, health workers and researchers mobilized to prevent the spread of infection as far as was possible, care for those infected, and develop therapeutic and preventive approaches. However, the toll in mortality and ill health was great, and disruption at all levels of societies profound.
In this month's Editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors discuss existing and future planning for infectious disease outbreaks—at national and global levels.
Image Credit: Alexandra_Koch, Pixabay
Citation: (2020) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 17(4) October 2020. PLoS Med 17(4): ev17.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v17.i04
Published: October 5, 2020
Copyright: © 2020 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
In the first quarter of 2020, the emergence of COVID-19 disease and the infectious agent SARS-CoV-2 transitioned from a serious respiratory disease outbreak in Wuhan, China to a global pandemic of almost universal concern and risk to health. Public health authorities, health workers and researchers mobilized to prevent the spread of infection as far as was possible, care for those infected, and develop therapeutic and preventive approaches. However, the toll in mortality and ill health was great, and disruption at all levels of societies profound.
In this month's Editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors discuss existing and future planning for infectious disease outbreaks—at national and global levels.
Image Credit: Alexandra_Koch, Pixabay