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Sir John Bell argues for a global genomic surveillance system to thwart pandemics | The Economist

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Tackling covid-19, monkeypox and other diseases is critical. More surveillance and sequencing would help, says the professor of medicine

By Invitation | Health care Sir John Bell argues for a global genomic surveillance system to thwart pandemics Tackling covid-19, monkeypox and other diseases is critical. More surveillance and sequencing would help, says the professor of medicine Share May 26th 2022 | 6 min read O UR ABILITY to identify and track pathogens that cause disease outbreaks is flawed. Take covid-19. At the start of the pandemic it took weeks to discover the disease was caused by a new coronavirus. This slowed the development of vaccines and testing platforms. Emerging evolutionary variants caused dismay, even though

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