COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned from more than a century of pandemics and current vaccine development for pandemic control.

ABSTRACT: Pandemic dynamics and health care responses are markedly different during the COVID-19 pandemic than in earlier outbreaks. Compared with established infectious disease such as influenza, we currently know relatively little about the origin, reservoir, cross-species transmission and evolution of SARS-CoV-2. Health care services, drug availability, laboratory testing, research capacity and global governance are more advanced than during 20th century pandemics, although COVID-19 has highlighted significant gaps. The risk of zoonotic transmission and an associated new pandemic is rising substantially. COVID-19 vaccine development has been done at unprecedented speed, with the usual sequential steps done in parallel. The pandemic has illustrated the feasibility of this approach and the benefits

SUBMITTER: Buchy P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8459551 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature