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Early mobilisation of scientific community was critical to accelerate
vaccine development
31 Dec 2019
Wuhan reports a
cluster of
pneumonia
cases to WHO¹
8 Jan 2020
New coronavirus
(SARS-CoV-2)
identified as the cause
of pneumonia
THE LANCET
12 Jan 2020
China publicly
shares gene
sequencing data¹
Jan 2020
Chinese Ministry of Health
selects The Lancet to
collaborate on the outbreak
24 Jan 2020
First two studies in
the world are
published by The
Lancet
Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel
coronavirus in Wuhan, China
Pof Chin Huang, MD
Paping, MD
Published: January 24, 2000- 001 ps/dog/10.1016/S0140-6743S
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Jan 2020
Dr Sahin (BioNTech) reads The Lancet
article and begins Covid-19 vaccine
programme² Teams at Moderna and Oxford
University start their vaccine programmes
30 Jan 2020
WHO declares Covid-19 a
Public Health Emergency
of International Concern¹
27 Jan 2020
Elsevier creates free coronavirus
information centre³
(245m+ downloads to date)
Novel Coronavirus information Center
Feb 2020
Within the first few
weeks, first vaccine
candidates developed
and first batches
tested for clinical use
31 Jan 2020
First modelling study by Gabriel
Leung on the predictions for the
spread of the pandemic published
by The Lancet
THE LANCET
ARCHES PFERUARY
Nowcasting and forecasting the potential domestic and international
spread of the 2019-nCoV outbreak originating in Wuhan, China: a
modelling study
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Publish: January 11, 20- Doe hetpd.org/10.1006/4G-4THOREXING-9
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Sources: (1) WHO timeline, www.who.int (2) Project Lightspeed, bionetch.de (3) https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center (4) Modernatx.com
& RELX
11 Mar 2020
WHO declares
Covid-19 a
pandemic¹
16 Mar 2020
First participant in
Moderna's phase 1
was dosed, a total of
63 days from sequence
selection to first human
dosing4
13 March 2020
Elsevier makes all its
research and data on its
Covid-19 resource centre
available to PubMed and
other publicly funded
repositories, in a machine-
readable format with rights
for full text and data mining
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