How to Use Stats to Prepare for Next Pandemic

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How to Use Stats to Prepare for Next Pandemic

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Researchers have found cultural and demographic factors can help predict how COVID-19 and future outbreaks could progress. The authors said their techniques potentially could be used to figure out how an infectious disease will move beyond hot spots to regions that are not yet affected. ...

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Angola: COVID-19 - Cuanza Norte On 'Pandemic Route'

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EDCTP and CEPI funding moves IAVI’s Lassa fever vaccine candidate into advanced clinical development

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2021: IAVI has announced it has received an award of €22.8 million from the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to conduct a Phase 2b clinical trial of a novel vaccine

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