Europe must come together to confront omicron

Andre Calero Valdez; Emil N. Iftekhar; Miquel Oliu-Barton; Robert Bohm; Sarah Cuschieri; Thomas Czypionka; Uga Dumpis; Giulia Giordano; Claudia Hanson; Zdenek Hel; Anna Helova; Ilona Kickbusch; Peter Klimek; Lilian Kojan; Mirjam Kretzschmar; Tyll Krueger; Jenny Krutzinna; Berit Lange; Jeffrey Lazarus; Helena Machado; Martin McKee; Kai Nagel; Matjaz Perc; Elena Petelos; Nedyu Popivanov; Bary Pradelski; Barbara Prainsack; Kay Schroeder; Sotirios Tsiodras; Paul Wilmes; Guntram Wolff

doi:10.1136/bmj.o90

Europe must come together to confront omicron

Andre Calero Valdez
, Emil N. Iftekhar
, Miquel Oliu-Barton
, Robert Bohm
, Sarah Cuschieri
, Thomas Czypionka
, Uga Dumpis
, Giulia Giordano
, Claudia Hanson
, Zdenek Hel
, Anna Helova
, Ilona Kickbusch
, Peter Klimek
, Lilian Kojan
, Mirjam Kretzschmar
, Tyll Krueger
, Jenny Krutzinna
, Berit Lange
, Jeffrey Lazarus
, Helena Machado

Martin McKee, Kai Nagel, Matjaz Perc, Elena Petelos, Nedyu Popivanov, Bary Pradelski, Barbara Prainsack, Kay Schroeder, Sotirios Tsiodras, Paul Wilmes, Guntram Wolff

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Original language	English
Article number	o90
Pages (from-to)	o90
Number of pages	2
Journal	BMJ
Volume	376
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o90
Publication status	Published - 13 Jan 2022

Funding

Digital Society research program funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ACV). The Max Planck Society (ENI). German Research Foundation (DFG) grant BO 4466/2-1 (RB). University of Malta (SC). European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101016233 (PERISCOPE) (TC). National Research Programme project VPP-COVID-2020/1-0008 (UD). Strategic Grant MOSES at the University of Trento (GG). National Institutes of Health, USA (ZH). European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement no. 724460 (JK). European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101003480 Project CORESMA (BL). Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association (BL). German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, NaFOUniMedCovid19 FKZ: 01KX2021 (BL). Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), 91216062 (MK). European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101003480 (Project CORESMA) (MK). University Paris-Dauphine and Bruegel (MOB). Slovenian Research Agency, Grant Nos. P1-0403 and J1-2457 (MP). University of Crete and from Maastricht University (EP). Bulgarian NSF under Grant N degrees..-06-..52/4 (NP). Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) as part of the COVID-19 Fast-Track research project CO-INFECTOMICS, COVID-19/2020-1/14729513 (PW). European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement no. 863664 (PW).

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Valdez, A. C., Iftekhar, E. N., Oliu-Barton, M., Bohm, R., Cuschieri, S., Czypionka, T., Dumpis, U., Giordano, G., Hanson, C., Hel, Z., Helova, A., Kickbusch, I., Klimek, P., Kojan, L., Kretzschmar, M., Krueger, T., Krutzinna, J., Lange, B., Lazarus, J., ... Wolff, G. (2022). Europe must come together to confront omicron. BMJ, 376, o90. Article o90. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o90

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Europe must come together to confront omicron

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