Towards a European strategy to address the COVID-19 pandemic

Viola Priesemann¹, Rudi Balling², Simon Bauer³, Philippe Beutels⁴, André Calero Valdez⁵, Sarah Cuschieri⁶, Thomas Czypionka⁷, Uga Dumpis⁸, Enrico Glaab², Eva Grill⁹, Pirta Hotulainen¹⁰, Emil N Iftekhar³, Jenny Krutzinna¹¹, Christos Lionis¹², Helena Machado¹³, Carlos Martins¹⁴, Martin McKee¹⁵, George N Pavlakis¹⁶, Matjaž Perc¹⁷, Elena Petelos¹⁸, Martyn Pickersgill¹⁹, Barbara Prainsack²⁰, Joacim Rocklöv²¹, Eva Schernhammer²², Ewa Szczurek²³, Sotirios Tsiodras²⁴, Steven Van Gucht²⁵, Peter Willeit²⁶

Affiliations

¹ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany. Electronic address: viola.priesemann@ds.mpg.de.
² University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
³ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.
⁴ Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
⁵ RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
⁷ Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.
⁸ Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
⁹ Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
¹⁰ Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland.
¹¹ University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
¹² Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Crete, Greece; Institute of Health and Medicine, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden.
¹³ University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
¹⁴ Department of Community Medicine, Health Information and Decision Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
¹⁵ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
¹⁶ National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
¹⁷ University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia; Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
¹⁸ Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands.
¹⁹ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
²⁰ University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
²¹ Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section of Sustainable Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
²² Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
²³ University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
²⁴ National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.
²⁵ Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
²⁶ Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

PMID: 34384539
PMCID: PMC8352491
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01808-0

Towards a European strategy to address the COVID-19 pandemic

Viola Priesemann et al. Lancet. 2021.

. 2021 Sep 4;398(10303):838-839.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01808-0. Epub 2021 Aug 9.

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¹ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany. Electronic address: viola.priesemann@ds.mpg.de.
² University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
³ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.
⁴ Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
⁵ RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
⁷ Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.
⁸ Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
⁹ Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
¹⁰ Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland.
¹¹ University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
¹² Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Crete, Greece; Institute of Health and Medicine, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden.
¹³ University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
¹⁴ Department of Community Medicine, Health Information and Decision Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
¹⁵ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
¹⁶ National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
¹⁷ University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia; Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
¹⁸ Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands.
¹⁹ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
²⁰ University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
²¹ Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section of Sustainable Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
²² Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
²³ University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
²⁴ National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.
²⁵ Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
²⁶ Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

PMID: 34384539
PMCID: PMC8352491
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01808-0

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Conflict of interest statement

RB is a shareholder of the Information Technology For Translational Medicine research institute. SB reports grants from Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin. PB reports grants from the EU's SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020 programme, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKlein, and European Commission IMI, unrelated to this Correspondence. CL reports grants from the University of Oxford, the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training, Gilead Sciences, and the European Commission's Horizon 2020, unrelated to this Correspondence, all under the agreement and control of the Special Committee for Research Grants of the University of Crete, Greece. GNP's contribution is in his personal capacity; the opinions expressed are the author's own and do not reflect the views of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Health and Human Services, or the US Government. GNP's patents and company interactions are managed through the NIH. EP reports grants from the European Commission and personal fees from the European Commission, Maastricht University, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and the Swedish Healthcare Academy, unrelated to this Correspondence. MPi reports grants and personal fees from Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council, grants from the Medical Research Council, and personal fees from the Research Foundation Flanders, unrelated to this Correspondence. BP is a member of the Austrian National Bioethics Committee and has been a member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (2017–21). Projects in the laboratory of ESz are co-funded by Merck Healthcare. All other authors declare no competing interests. Acknowledgements of funding sources are stated in the appendix. Additional information about the estimation of ICU admissions and translated versions of this Correspondence is available in the appendix.

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