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The WHO BioHub: An Emerging Tool for Secure and Equitable Pathogen Sharing
By Lillian Parr As the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted, rapid detection and swift information sharing are key to stemming the spread of emergent infectious diseases and their variants. To gain insight into a novel pathogen or variant, it must be quickly sequenced and analyzed to determine what threat it poses and what interventions are most…
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The Biden Administration & Biothreats: Week One
By William Beaver After stepping away from the podium on Inauguration Day, President Biden got to work on fulfilling campaign promises, including re-establishing a productive working relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO), which is essential amid the deadliest pandemic in the last century. The president also made commitments to stopping a broad range of…