Seventeen years after the SARS “pandemic”, the international community (both scientific and non-scientific) was still not ready to respond to COVID-19. This meeting will focus on the gaps identified from the COVID-19 pandemic and address the needs for improvement.Expected outcomes/novelty: new approaches to both the technical and policy aspects of pandemic preparedness.1) Timing of the meeting allows us to focus on a very important topic;2) The unpresented surge of scientific focus and government/business investment for COVID-19 w;3) By focusing on both science and policy areas, we hope to facilitate a paradigm shift in this area by bringing interdisciplinary groups;4) Although the main focus will obviously be on coronaviruses, but we will do our best to include other high profile EID viral pathogens for some meaningful comparative analysis5) The COVID-19 response illustrates, for the first time in recent history, the importance of manufacturing in pandemic preparedness and we propose a special session for that6) This will be a stand-alone meeting.
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Lessons from the Pandemic: Responding to Emerging Zoonotic Viral Diseases
