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Editorial
. 2021 Feb 23;13(2):348.
doi: 10.3390/v13020348.

Erasing the Invisible Line to Empower the Pandemic Response

Nicola Decaro  1 , Alessio Lorusso  2 , Ilaria Capua  3
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Editorial

Erasing the Invisible Line to Empower the Pandemic Response

Nicola Decaro et al. Viruses. .

Abstract

A challenging debate has arisen on the role of veterinary expertise in facing the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. It seems totally unreasonable that in most countries, veterinary diagnostic and tracing forces were not deployed at the start to perform strategic tasks, which could have mitigated the outcome of this dramatic health emergency. Erasing the invisible line between human and veterinary virology will empower the response to future pandemics.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; one health; pandemic response; veterinary virologists.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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