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Pan­demic preparedness

TagLast edit: 10 Apr 2022 22:09 UTC by Pablo

Pandemic preparedness is the set of measures to better prepare humanity for future pandemics.

Further reading

Jamieson, Alice (2021) Improving global pandemic preparedness by 2025, Wellcome.

Ord, Toby (2020) Why we need worst-case thinking to prevent pandemics, The Guardian, March 6.

Vox Staff (2022) Pandemic-Proof, Vox, April 4.

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16 points
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19 points
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176 points
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1 comment2 min readEA link
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1 comment1 min readEA link
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Peter18 May 2022 7:33 UTC
18 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

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20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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Akhil29 Jun 2022 13:31 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
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Pan­demic pre­ven­tion in Ger­man par­ties’ fed­eral elec­tion platforms

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17 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

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18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
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freedomandutility12 Nov 2022 23:38 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A Po­ten­tial Cheap and High Im­pact Way to Re­duce Covid in the UK this Winter

Lawrence Newport28 Oct 2022 11:36 UTC
54 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

Pan­demic pre­ven­tion as fire-fight­ing by Richard Willi­am­son (Alvea.bio) for Works in Progress

Nick Whitaker8 Dec 2022 17:30 UTC
33 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
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How should we build meth­ods and tools to pre­pare for fu­ture pan­demics?

Sam Abbott13 Oct 2022 12:47 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
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UVC air puri­fier de­sign and test­ing strategy

DirectedEvolution1 Jun 2022 5:35 UTC
27 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Any in­ter­est in bac­te­riophages?

Charlie Dougherty4 May 2022 10:44 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Pod­cast: Bryan Ca­plan on open bor­ders, UBI, to­tal­i­tar­i­anism, AI, pan­demics, util­i­tar­i­anism and la­bor economics

Gus Docker22 Feb 2022 15:04 UTC
22 points
0 comments45 min readEA link
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Tech­nolog­i­cal Bot­tle­necks for PCR, LAMP, and Me­tage­nomics Sequencing

Ziyue Zeng9 Jan 2023 6:05 UTC
38 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Overview of the Pathogen Bio­surveillance Land­scape

Brianna Gopaul9 Jan 2023 6:05 UTC
54 points
4 comments20 min readEA link

H5N1 - thread for in­for­ma­tion shar­ing, plan­ning, and action

MathiasKB🔸5 Feb 2023 11:08 UTC
202 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

Pan­demic Pre­dic­tion Check­list: H5N1 (6/​14)

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2023 14:56 UTC
70 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Speedrun: Develop an af­ford­able su­per PPE

Buhl7 Feb 2023 18:43 UTC
101 points
7 comments15 min readEA link

Har­den­ing phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal re­sponse to pan­demics: con­crete pro­ject seeks pro­ject lead

Joel Becker9 Feb 2023 18:04 UTC
73 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Five ways to stop a bird->mink->hu­man H5N1 pandemic

DirectedEvolution10 Feb 2023 16:36 UTC
36 points
22 comments9 min readEA link

Re­port: Pro­pos­als for the pre­ven­tion and de­tec­tion of emerg­ing in­fec­tious dis­eases (EID) in Guatemala

JorgeTorresC22 Sep 2023 20:27 UTC
14 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial Benefits of Im­ple­ment­ing High-Through­put Se­quenc­ing (HTS) Tech­nolo­gies for Pan­demic Pathogen De­tec­tion in Latin Amer­ica and the Caribbean

Gabriela Paredes12 Aug 2024 16:17 UTC
12 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Perché gli es­perti sono ter­ror­iz­zati dall’idea di una pan­demia ar­tifi­ciale — e come pos­si­amo fermarla

EA Italy12 Jan 2023 3:04 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Loop-me­di­ated isother­mal am­plifi­ca­tion (LAMP) for pan­demic pathogen di­ag­nos­tics: How it differs from PCR and why it isn’t more widely used

Julia Niggemeyer2 Sep 2024 0:17 UTC
21 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

3) Science Fails in a Pandemic

PandemicRiskMan8 Feb 2024 14:58 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readEA link
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