When a COVID-19 vaccine is ready, will we all be ready for it?

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When will we be ready for academic integrity?

The academic dental community has been taken aback by recent events involving student cheating. Several of these events have served as the catalyst for a number of recent journal articles on the subject, providing an invaluable overview of the problems. There have also been several articles over the last few years that have considered student behavior and how institutions can address profession...

Strategies of vaccine production against COVID-19: when will an effective vaccine be produced?

There is a strong consensus globally that production of an effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 is likely the most effective approach to sustainably controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. An unprecedented research effort and global coordination has resulted in a rapid development of vaccine candidates and initiation of trials. In this paper, we review vaccine candidate against COVID-19 and also cha...

Will We Be Ready for the Next War?

TO THE EDITOR—The title of Dr Schooley's editorial, " All's (Almost) Quiet on the Western Front: Will We Be Ready for the Next War? " [1] raises a key question: What is the role of the US Department of Defense (DoD) in the Ebola outbreak response? Because Ebola is a biological warfare threat, the DoD has been developing medical countermeasures through its biological defense program for more tha...

Influenza A (H5N1): will it be the next pandemic influenza? Are we ready?

Are We Ready? Influenza experts have predicted the next pandemic flu for many years. What they fear most is an event like the Spanish flu of 1918 to 1919—the largest outbreak of fatal infectious disease during the past century. Avian influenza (influenza A [H5N1]) appears to have that potential. Dramatic response strategies have been undertaken in some countries, but the response in others has ...