Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now

Nisreen A. Alwan; Rochelle Ann Burgess; Simon Ashworth; Rupert Beale; Nahid Bhadelia; Debby Bogaert; Jennifer Dowd; Isabella Eckerle; Lynn R. Goldman; Trisha Greenhalgh; Deepti Gurdasani; Adam Hamdy; William P. Hanage; Emma B. Hodcroft; Zoë Hyde; Paul Kellam; Michelle Kelly-Irving; Florian Krammer; Marc Lipsitch; Alan McNally; Martin McKee; Ali Nouri; Dominic Pimenta; Viola Priesemann; Harry Rutter; Joshua Silver; Devi Sridhar; Charles Swanton; Rochelle P. Walensky; Gavin Yamey; Hisham Ziauddeen

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32153-X

Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now

Nisreen A. Alwan, Rochelle Ann Burgess, Simon Ashworth, Rupert Beale, Nahid Bhadelia, Debby Bogaert, Jennifer Dowd, Isabella Eckerle, Lynn R. Goldman, Trisha Greenhalgh, Deepti Gurdasani, Adam Hamdy, William P. Hanage, Emma B. Hodcroft, Zoë Hyde, Paul Kellam, Michelle Kelly-Irving, Florian Krammer, Marc Lipsitch, Alan McNallyMartin McKee, Ali Nouri, Dominic Pimenta, Viola Priesemann, Harry Rutter, Joshua Silver, Devi Sridhar, Charles Swanton, Rochelle P. Walensky, Gavin Yamey, Hisham Ziauddeen

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e71-e72
Journal	The Lancet
Volume	396
Issue number	10260
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32153-X
State	Published - 31 Oct 2020

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Alwan, N. A., Burgess, R. A., Ashworth, S., Beale, R., Bhadelia, N., Bogaert, D., Dowd, J., Eckerle, I., Goldman, L. R., Greenhalgh, T., Gurdasani, D., Hamdy, A., Hanage, W. P., Hodcroft, E. B., Hyde, Z., Kellam, P., Kelly-Irving, M., Krammer, F., Lipsitch, M., ... Ziauddeen, H. (2020). Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now. The Lancet, 396(10260), e71-e72. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32153-X

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