The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic: how have immunology societies contributed?

Osier F., Ting JPY., Fraser J., Lambrecht BN., Romano M., Gazzinelli RT., Bortoluci KR., Zamboni DS., Akbar AN., Evans J., Brown DE., Patel KD., Wu Y., Perez AB., Pérez O., Kamradt T., Falk C., Barda-Saad M., Ariel A., Santoni A., Annunziato F., Cassatella MA., Kiyono H., Chereshnev V., Dieye A., Mbow M., Mbengue B., Niang MDS., Suchard M.

The COVID-19 pandemic is shining a spotlight on the field of immunology like never before. To appreciate the diverse ways in which immunologists have contributed, Nature Reviews Immunology invited the president of the International Union of Immunological Societies and the presidents of 15 other national immunology societies to discuss how they and their members responded following the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

DOI

10.1038/s41577-020-00428-4

Type

Journal

Nature reviews. Immunology

Publication Date

10/2020

Volume

20

Pages

594 - 602

Addresses

Biosciences Department, KEMRI Wellcome, Kilifi, Kenya. fosier@kemri-wellcome.org.

Keywords

Humans, Pneumonia, Viral, Coronavirus Infections, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Viral Vaccines, Antiviral Agents, International Cooperation, Societies, Scientific, Community-Institutional Relations, Patient Education as Topic, Pandemics, Global Health, Personal Protective Equipment, Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 Vaccines

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