Lessons from the pandemic: Responding to emerging zoonotic viral diseases—a Keystone Symposia report

• Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1518; no. 1; pp. 209 - 225
• Main Authors: Cable, Jennifer, Fauci, Anthony, Dowling, William E., Günther, Stephan, Bente, Dennis A., Yadav, Pragya Dhruv, Madoff, Lawrence C., Wang, Lin‐Fa, Arora, Rahul K., Van Kerkhove, Maria, Chu, May C., Jaenisch, Thomas, Epstein, Jonathan H., Frost, Simon David William, Bausch, Daniel G., Hensley, Lisa E., Bergeron, Éric, Sitaras, Ioannis, Gunn, Michael D., Geisbert, Thomas W., Muñoz‐Fontela, César, Krammer, Florian, Wit, Emmie, Nordenfelt, Pontus, Saphire, Erica Ollmann, Gilbert, Sarah C., Corbett, Kizzmekia S., Branco, Luis M., Baize, Sylvain, Doremalen, Neeltje, Krieger, Marco A., Clemens, Sue Ann Costa, Hesselink, Renske, Hartman, Dan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01-12-2022; Wiley; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Concise Report; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; Disease Outbreaks; Ebola virus; Ebolavirus; Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi; Health Sciences; Humans; Hälsovetenskap; infectious diseases; Lassa virus; Life Sciences; Medical and Health Sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Nipah virus; Nonprofit organizations; Pandemics; Pathogens; Public health; Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology; vaccines; Viral diseases; Viruses; Zoonoses; zoonotic diseases; COVID-19; Ebola virus; vaccines; zoonotic diseases; infectious diseases; Nipah virus; Lassa virus
• ISSN: 0077-8923; 1749-6632; 1749-6632
• DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14898

The COVID‐19 pandemic caught the world largely unprepared, including scientific and policy communities. On April 10–13, 2022, researchers across academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations met at the Keystone symposium “Lessons from the Pandemic: Responding to Emerging Zoonotic Viral Diseases” to discuss the successes and challenges of the COVID‐19 pandemic and what lessons can be applied moving forward. Speakers focused on experiences not only from the COVID‐19 pandemic but also from outbreaks of other pathogens, including the Ebola virus, Lassa virus, and Nipah virus. A general consensus was that investments made during the COVID‐19 pandemic in infrastructure, collaborations, laboratory and manufacturing capacity, diagnostics, clinical trial networks, and regulatory enhancements—notably, in low‐to‐middle income countries—must be maintained and strengthened to enable quick, concerted responses to future threats, especially to zoonotic pathogens.
The COVID‐19 pandemic caught the world largely unprepared, including scientific and policy communities. On April 10–13, 2022, researchers across academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations met at the Keystone symposium “Lessons from the Pandemic: Responding to Emerging Zoonotic Viral Diseases” to discuss successes and challenges of the COVID‐19 pandemic and what lessons can be applied moving forward.