Calling for pan-European commitment for rapid and sustained reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infections

Viola Priesemann¹, Melanie M Brinkmann², Sandra Ciesek³, Sarah Cuschieri⁴, Thomas Czypionka⁵, Giulia Giordano⁶, Deepti Gurdasani⁷, Claudia Hanson⁸, Niel Hens⁹, Emil Iftekhar¹⁰, Michelle Kelly-Irving¹¹, Peter Klimek¹², Mirjam Kretzschmar¹³, Andreas Peichl¹⁴, Matjaž Perc¹⁵, Francesco Sannino¹⁶, Eva Schernhammer¹⁷, Alexander Schmidt¹⁸, Anthony Staines¹⁹, Ewa Szczurek²⁰

Affiliations

¹ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany. Electronic address: viola.priesemann@ds.mpg.de.
² Technische Universität Braunschweig, Helmholtz Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, Braunschweig, Germany.
³ University Hospital, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine & Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
⁵ Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria; London School of Economics, London, UK.
⁶ University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
⁷ Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
⁸ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁹ I-BioStat, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium; Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
¹⁰ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
¹¹ Inserm-University Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
¹² Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹³ University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
¹⁴ ifo Institute, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
¹⁵ University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
¹⁶ Federico II University of Napoli, Napoli, Italy; Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics and Cosmology and Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
¹⁸ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks, Göttingen, Germany.
¹⁹ School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
²⁰ Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

PMID: 33347811
PMCID: PMC7833270
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32625-8

Calling for pan-European commitment for rapid and sustained reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infections

Viola Priesemann et al. Lancet. 2021.

. 2021 Jan 9;397(10269):92-93.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32625-8. Epub 2020 Dec 18.

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Affiliations

¹ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany. Electronic address: viola.priesemann@ds.mpg.de.
² Technische Universität Braunschweig, Helmholtz Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, Braunschweig, Germany.
³ University Hospital, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine & Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
⁵ Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria; London School of Economics, London, UK.
⁶ University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
⁷ Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
⁸ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁹ I-BioStat, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium; Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
¹⁰ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
¹¹ Inserm-University Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
¹² Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹³ University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
¹⁴ ifo Institute, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
¹⁵ University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
¹⁶ Federico II University of Napoli, Napoli, Italy; Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics and Cosmology and Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
¹⁸ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks, Göttingen, Germany.
¹⁹ School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
²⁰ Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

PMID: 33347811
PMCID: PMC7833270
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32625-8

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Call for a pan-European COVID-19 response must be comprehensive.
Krüger C. Krüger C. Lancet. 2021 Apr 24;397(10284):1540-1541. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00471-2. Lancet. 2021. PMID: 33894826 No abstract available.

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