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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc committee to lay out a framework to define and describe the data needs for a system to track and correlate viral genome sequences with clinical and epidemiological data. This system would help ensure the integration of data on viral evolution with detection, diagnostic, and countermeasure efforts.
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Genomic Epidemiology Data Infrastructure Needs for SARS-CoV-2: Modernizing Pandemic Response Strategies
Consensus Study Report
·2020
In December 2019, new cases of severe pneumonia were first detected in Wuhan, China, and the cause was determined to be a novel beta coronavirus related to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus that emerged from a bat reservoir in 2002. Within six months, this new virus—SARS coron...
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