In December 2024, on the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, UN-Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated: “The COVID-19 crisis may have passed, but a harsh lesson remains: The world is ...

Scientific experts from 13 Western European countries have recently completed a review of key lessons learned from the way the COVID-19 pandemic was handled. Two key findings have emerged. Firstly, ...

The fifth anniversary of COVID-19 is approaching. With a possible bird flu pandemic looming and a mysterious deadly outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we should quickly learn the ...

For many, COVID-19 has faded into a recent memory. Even for hospitals, healthcare providers, and clinical staff, the way we view the virus has evolved since 2020. Yet, the lessons learned should not ...

During a visit to the border region between Colombia and Venezuela in 2021, a member of Prof. Jan Felix Drexler's team demonstrates how to perform a rapid antigen test. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed ...

As we close out 2024, we look back at a very important reminder of how far we've come. Exactly five years ago today, the World Health Organization first learned about a cluster of viral pneumonia ...

The Urban Prepper shares three key preparedness changes learned from the COVID-19 experience.

When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed innovative practices across many sectors to accelerate the development and use of new tools and technologies in response to an emerging infectious disease outbreak.

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