SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse
Frank Konings(World Health Organization), Maria D. Van Kerkhove(World Health Organization), Malik Peiris(HKU-Pasteur Research Pole), Suxiang Tong(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Marion Koopmans(National Institute for Public Health and the Environment), Jairo Andrés Méndez Rico(World Health Organization), Jens H. Kuhn(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), Belinda L. Herring(Stanford University), George F. Gao(Chinese Academy of Sciences), Sebastian Maurer‐Stroh(Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Emma B. Hodcroft(University of Bern), Bette Korber(Los Alamos National Laboratory), Esther Hamblion(World Health Organization), Trevor Bedford(Cape Town HVTN Immunology Laboratory / Hutchinson Centre Research Institute of South Africa), Roger Evans(World Health Organization), Vincent J. Munster(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), Ihab El Masry(World Health Organization - Egypt), Leo L. M. Poon(University of Hong Kong), John Ziebuhr(Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), Richard A. Neher(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics), Alexander E. Gorbalenya(Lomonosov Moscow State University), Juliana Almeida Leite(World Health Organization), Amal Barakat(World Health Organization), Manish Kakkar(World Health Organization), Paola Cristina Resende(Faculdades Oswaldo Cruz), Túlio de Oliveira(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Bas B. Oude Munnink(University of Amsterdam), Boris Pavlin(World Health Organization), Anne von Gottberg(Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit), Oliver G. Pybus(Royal Veterinary College), Mark J. Pallen(University of Birmingham), Mark D. Perkins(World Health Organization), Julian Druce(Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory), Erik Alm(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control), Jinal N. Bhiman(National Health Laboratory Service), Leon Caly(Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory), Andrew Rambaut(National Institutes of Health), Brett N. Archer(World Health Organization), Marco Marklewitz(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin), Lisa L. Carter(World Health Organization), Anne Cullinane(University of Limerick), Edward C. Holmes(Pennsylvania State University), Volker Thiel(University of Bern), Lorenzo Subissi(World Health Organization - Pakistan), Sylvie van der Werf(Goethe University Frankfurt), Duncan MacCannell(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Shagun Khare(World Health Organization)
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