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International Security Forum Bonn 2020 Report
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM BONN 2020 A TIME OUT OF JOINT – NEW REALITIES, NEW IDEAS 1-5 DECEMBER 2020 FULL REPORT RAPPORTEURS: CORNELIUS LILIE LUKAS PAUL SCHMELTER International Security Forum Bonn 2020 3 FOREWORD The International Security Forum Bonn 2020 facilitated Like no other event in the 21st century, the SARS- a high-level international dialogue on contemporary CoV-2-pandemic has put the international order, as topics of foreign and security policy. The goal of the well as the societies, economies, and policies of Forum was to foster exchange between experts and almost every country on earth to the test. It remains practitioners, to identify vital aspects of a successful to be seen whether those in positions of influence will European foreign and security policy, and to develop succeed in containing the pandemic and in respond- holistic strategic solutions for pressing problems. The ing successfully to its consequences. 2020 Forum focused on the challenges posed by the shifts in transatlantic relations, discussed the findings As hardly ever before, political, and economic decision- of the Task Force "The Future of Transatlantic Rela- makers depend on science – first on virologists, but tions", and evaluated the upcoming global geo-eco- also on other natural and social science expertise. nomic and geo-political rivalries which were reinforced Expertise and novel insights are key, particularly since by the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic. It was concluded by a any political or inaction is likely to have serious social, two-day workshop on strategic foresight. economic, and political consequences. From left to right: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Hilz, Prof. -
Sequencing of SARS-Cov-2
TECHNICAL NOTE Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 23 December 2020 Introduction In January 2020, a previously unknown coronavirus strain was identified as the cause of a respiratory infection and death in humans [1]. The first viral genome was sequenced using high throughput sequencing (HTS) from a sample collected in Wuhan, China. This virus, belonging to the viral species Severe acute respiratory syndrome– related coronavirus, has been subsequently named SARS-CoV-2 and the associated disease coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) [2]. Sequencing of (partial) genes and whole genomes (WGS) have been proven as powerful methods to investigate viral pathogen genomes, understand outbreak transmission dynamics and spill-over events and screen for mutations that potentially have an impact on transmissibility, pathogenicity, and/or countermeasures (e.g. diagnostics, antiviral drugs and vaccines). The results are key to informing outbreak control decisions in public health. Scope A standardised pipeline to characterise, name and report SARS-CoV-2 sequences has not been established yet, but many countries of the WHO European Region have been sequencing SARS-CoV-2 variants since the beginning of the pandemic and reporting the sequences to the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID) or other publicly accessible databases [3]. Combining information of virus characteristics with clinical and epidemiological data is important. Genetic characterisation of SARS-CoV-2 is used to monitor viral evolution and to timely identify potential markers of increased transmissibility, severity of disease or altered antigenicity. Emerging hypotheses will need to be further investigated in ex vivo, in vitro or animal models. Sequence data will become increasingly important as SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and antivirals become available, in order to monitor the match of the circulating variants with the vaccine and the possible emergence of antiviral resistance. -
THE CORONAVIRUS CZAR the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Made German Virologist Christian Drosten an Unlikely Cult Figure
NEWS FEATURES Downloaded from http://science.sciencemag.org/ on May 13, 2020 THE CORONAVIRUS CZAR The COVID-19 pandemic has made German virologist Christian Drosten an unlikely cult figure By Kai Kupferschmidt, in Berlin PHOTO: VOLKER LANNERT VOLKER PHOTO: 462 1 MAY 2020 • VOL 368 ISSUE 6490 sciencemag.org SCIENCE Published by AAAS NEWS but now one of those pathogens was killing virus he has spent most of his life studying. patients in a hospital a few blocks away. “If this were influenza, for instance, I would And instead of teaching virology to a few not be doing this,” he says. hundred students, Drosten now addresses hundreds of thousands of anxious Germans. DROSTEN’S CORONAVIRUS CAREER effectively Twice a week around 10 a.m., he sets a blue began on Saturday, 15 March 2003, when a microphone on his desk, puts on head- 32-year-old doctor from Singapore named phones, and waits for a science journalist Leong Hoe Nam was taken off a plane in from German radio station NDR Info to call Frankfurt, Germany, and taken to the city’s him. For the next 40 minutes, he answers university clinic. Leong had treated patients questions about vaccines, respiratory drop- in Singapore before attending an infectious lets, school closures, or masks. The podcast, diseases course in New York City, and had de- simply titled Coronavirus Update, has made veloped symptoms consistent with an alarm- Drosten the face, or rather the voice, of the ing new respiratory disease that was rapidly pandemic in Germany. More than 1 million people regularly download what has become the country’s most popular podcast. -
The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Made German Virologist Christian Drosten an Unlikely Cult Figure
NEWS FEATURES Downloaded from http://science.sciencemag.org/ on May 1, 2020 THE CORONAVIRUS CZAR The COVID-19 pandemic has made German virologist Christian Drosten an unlikely cult figure By Kai Kupferschmidt, in Berlin PHOTO: VOLKER LANNERT VOLKER PHOTO: 462 1 MAY 2020 • VOL 368 ISSUE 6490 sciencemag.org SCIENCE Published by AAAS NEWS but now one of those pathogens was killing virus he has spent most of his life studying. patients in a hospital a few blocks away. “If this were influenza, for instance, I would And instead of teaching virology to a few not be doing this,” he says. hundred students, Drosten now addresses hundreds of thousands of anxious Germans. DROSTEN’S CORONAVIRUS CAREER effectively Twice a week around 10 a.m., he sets a blue began on Saturday, 15 March 2003, when a microphone on his desk, puts on head- 32-year-old doctor from Singapore named phones, and waits for a science journalist Leong Hoe Nam was taken off a plane in from German radio station NDR Info to call Frankfurt, Germany, and taken to the city’s him. For the next 40 minutes, he answers university clinic. Leong had treated patients questions about vaccines, respiratory drop- in Singapore before attending an infectious lets, school closures, or masks. The podcast, diseases course in New York City, and had de- simply titled Coronavirus Update, has made veloped symptoms consistent with an alarm- Drosten the face, or rather the voice, of the ing new respiratory disease that was rapidly pandemic in Germany. More than 1 million people regularly download what has become the country’s most popular podcast. -
Science Denial” and a “Policy of Contagion”: Germany’S Leading Virologists Condemn Government’S Anti-Lockdown Policy
افغانستان آزاد – آزاد افغانستان AA-AA چو کشور نباشـد تن من مبـــــــاد بدين بوم و بر زنده يک تن مــــباد ھمه سر به سر تن به کشتن دھيم از آن به که کشور به دشمن دھيم www.afgazad.com [email protected] زبانھای اروپائی European Languages Gregor Link 11.04.2021 “Science denial” and a “policy of contagion”: Germany’s leading virologists condemn government’s anti-lockdown policy Although the number of COVID-19 patients in German intensive care units has been rising exponentially for four weeks, the federal and state governments refuse to close schools and businesses to contain the pandemic. In recent weeks, medical and scientific experts have been insisting on the implementation of a “hard lockdown,” as the more infectious and deadly B.1.1.7 virus strain is spreading unhindered and is now responsible for over 90 percent of all new infections, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). Virologist Christian Drosten [email protected] ١ www.afgazad.com “I think all virologists agree that we need a hard lockdown immediately in this critical phase of the third wave,” Oliver Keppler, a professor of virology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, told the Tagesschau TV news on Tuesday. “Honestly, I ask myself: where is it? It should have been implemented by now. There is no alternative. And we need it now, and preferably uniformly throughout Germany.” The German government, however, is doing absolutely nothing to comply with this demand. Instead, the government plans to expand its vaccination programme as infection incidence figures rise, in what amounts to a recipe for the emergence of vaccine-resistant virus mutants, according to experts such as Max Planck researcher Viola Priesemann. -
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1 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents .......................................................................... 1 Welcome Address of the German Research Platform for Zoonoses .... 4 Welcome Note of the Federal Ministries ........................................... 6 Welcome Note of Public Health Representatives .............................. 8 Program ...................................................................................... 11 General Information ..................................................................... 24 Floor Plan .................................................................................... 28 Site Plan...................................................................................... 29 About the German Research Platform for Zoonoses ....................... 30 Oral Presentations ....................................................................... 32 Plenary Sessions .......................................................................... 33 Session 1: Epidemiology and modelling ......................................... 37 Session 2: Pathogen-cell interaction .............................................. 44 Session 3: Risikobewertung .......................................................... 51 Session 4: Antimicrobial use and resistance ................................... 55 Session 5: Public Health relevant zoonoses .................................... 62 Session 6: New and emerging zoonoses ........................................ 69 Session 7: Innate and adaptive immune