COVID-19 and Beyond: A Call for Action and Audacious Solidarity to All the Citizens and Nations, It Is Humanity’s Fight
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Auffray, CharlesBalling, Rudi
Blomberg, Niklas
BONALDO, MYRNA
Boutron, Bertrand
Brahmachari, Samir
Bréchot, Christian
Cesario, Alfredo
Chen, Sai-Juan
Clément, Karine
Danilenko, Daria
Di Meglio, Alberto
Gelemanovic, Andrea
Goble, Carole
Gojobori, Takashi

Goldman, Jason D
Goldman, Michel
Guo, Yi-Ke
Heath, James
Hood, Leroy
Hunter, Peter
Jin, Li
Kitano, Hiroaki
Knoppers, Bartha Maria
Lancet, Doron
Larue, Catherine
Lathrop, Mark
Laville, Martine
Lindner, Ariel B
Magnan, Antoine
Metspalu, Andres
Morin, Edgar
Ng, Lisa F.P.
Nicod, Laurent
Noble, Denis
Nottale, Laurent
Nowotny, Helga
Ochoa, Theresa
Okeke, Iruna
Oni, Tolu
Openshaw, Peter
Oztürk, Mehmet
Palkonen, Susanna
Paweska, Janusz
Pison, Christophe
Polymeropoulos, Mihael
Pristipino, Christian
Protzer, Ulrike
Roca, Josep
Rozman, Damjana
Santolini, Marc
Sanz, Ferran
Scambia, Giovanni
Segal, Eran
Serageldin, Ismail
Soares, Marcelo Bento
Sterk, Peter
Sugano, Sumio
Superti-Furga, Giulio
Supple, David
Tegnér, Jesper
Uhlen, Mathias
Urbani, Andrea
Valencia, Alfonso
Valentini, Vincenzo
van der Werf, Sylvie
Vinciguerra, Manlio
Wolkenhauer, Olaf
Wouters, Emiel
KAUST Department
Bioscience ProgramComputational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC)
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
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2020-06-26Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/666312
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SARS-CoV-2 belongs to a subgroup of coronaviruses rampant in bats for centuries. It has caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Most patients recover, but a minority of severe cases experience acute respiratory distress or an inflammatory storm devastating many organs that can lead to patient death. The spread of SARS-CoV-2 has been facilitated by the increasing intensity of air travel, urban congestion and human contact during the last half century. Until therapies and vaccines are available, tests for virus and exposure, confinement measures and physical distancing have helped curb the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic calls for safeguards and remediation measures through a systemic response. A myriad of selforganizing initiatives by scientists and citizens is developing an advanced collective intelligence response to the coronavirus crisis. Their integration forms Olympiads of Solidarity and Health. Their ability to optimize our response to COVID-19 could serve as a model to trigger a global metamorphosis of our societies with far-reaching consequences for attacking fundamental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. For COVID-19 and these other challenges, there is no alternative but action. Meeting in Paris in 2003, we set out to "rethink research to understand life and improve health." We have now formed an international coalition of academia and industry ecosystems taking a systems medicine approach to understanding COVID-19 by thoroughly characterizing viruses, patients and populations during the pandemic, using openly shared tools. All results will be publicly available with no initial claims for intellectual property rights. This World Alliance for Health and Wellbeing will catalyze the creation of medical and health products such as diagnostic tests, drugs and vaccines that become common goods accessible to all, while seeking further alliances with civil society to bridge with socio-ecological and technological approaches that characterise urban systems, for a collective response to future health emergencies.Citation
Auffray, C., Balling, R., Blomberg, N., BONALDO, M., Boutron, B., Brahmachari, S., … Clément, K. (2020). COVID-19 and Beyond: A Call for Action and Audacious Solidarity to All the Citizens and Nations, It Is Humanity’s Fight. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3630412Sponsors
CA wrote the initial draft of the paper; all authors provided input into and approved the final version. We thank Bertrand De Meulder for help in formatting the references, colleagues and citizens for useful comments on the manuscript.This work was supported during its preparation phases by the State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Overseas Expertise Introduction Project for Discipline Innovation (111 Project, B17029) to SJC, LH, CA; European Union grants CASyM (FP7-n°305033) to CA, RB, JR, DR, DS, JT, OW; eTRIKS (IMI-1-n°115446) to CA, RB, YG; PREPARE (FP7-n°602525) to CA, PO, SV; and initial funds in support of the deep phenotyping clinical study from philanthropic donors, Gilead, Merck and Novartis to JG, JH, LH; the Ricerca Corrente Program by the Italian Ministry of Health to AC, CPr, GS, AU, VV; the National Megaprojects of China for Infectious Diseases (2017ZX10103009-001, 2018ZX10305409-001-005), Double Firstclass projects from the Ministry of Education to the National Research Center for Translational Medicine Shanghai to SJC; Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (2017SHZDZX01) to LJ. The funders had no role in the preparation or submission of the manuscript.
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