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We fast-tracked review and dissemination of medical research, and
enabled sharing in real time
What did we do:
42,300 Covid-19 related articles published,
including 2,800 content items in The Lancet (60
million downloads) and 900 articles in Cell Press
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Key research e.g. The Lancet first Covid-19 report
24 Jan 2020; 8 vaccine trials incl. AstraZeneca
phase 2 and 3; T-cell response in Cell Press
Set up The Lancet Covid-19 Commission,
interdisciplinary initiative across the health
sciences, business, finance, and public policy
Organised China Covid-19 conference on virology,
immunology, testing, therapeutics and public
health; 1.1 million views
• Collaboration with WHO to share early knowledge
• All Covid-19 publications and tools made freely
available on our Novel Coronavirus information
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Dr. Anthony Fauci holding up the copy of Cell
Press during Congressional hearing¹
How did we do it:
Mobilised our 26,000 editors to prioritise and flag
Covid-19 articles
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Encouraged authors to upload Covid-19 preprints
via dedicated portal for early knowledge
dissemination
Provided free language editing to China to
accelerate work as early as January
• Developed Covid-19 Relevancy Algorithm to help
identify and prioritise Covid-19 research
• The algorithm identifies articles dealing with
Covid-19 diagnosis, treatment, vaccine
development, virology, host-virus interaction,
pandemic models and population statistics
Changed our workflow to publish Covid-19 content
within a record 53 days vs. average 125 days
Source: (1) CNBC, The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci holds up a copy of a Cell paper as he testifies before a US House of Representatives committee on the Covid-19 response on
July 31, 2020
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