Reducing the global burden of sepsis: a positive legacy for the COVID-19 pandemic?

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Mitchell M. Levy, Brown University; Simon S. Finfer, University of New South Wales; Flavia Machado, Federal University of Sao Paulo; Lewis Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania; Jozef Kesecioglu, Utrecht University; Andrew Rhodes, St Georges University; Ron Daniels, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; Niranjan Kissoon, University of British Columbia; Emmanuel Nsutebu, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City; L.A. Gorordo, Hospital of Juarez Mexico; Imrana Malik, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Abdulelah Alhawsawi, Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Health Institutions; Maurizio Cecconi, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center; Evangelos Giamarellos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Gregory Martin, Emory University; Luregn Schlapbach, University of Quensland; Konrad Reinhart, Charite University
• Language: English
• Date: 2021-06-16
• Publisher: SPRINGER
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © The Author(s) 2021
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00134-021-06409-y
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 7
• Start Page: 733
• End Page: 736
• Keywords: Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Critical Care Medicine; General & Internal Medicine
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Health Care Management; Health Sciences, Public Health

Abstract

The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in December 2019 and the subsequent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented the world with the most serious health threat in living memory. The resultant pandemic has caused millions of deaths and unprecedented social and economic disruption. The response to the pandemic has also been unprecedented; countries have closed their borders, some have instituted draconian but effective public health measures, and the global scientific community has come together to produce robust research evidence and novel vaccines in record time. Mass vaccination programs are now underway, and while it is too early to know clearly their effectiveness in ending the pandemic, we can hope that this marks the beginning of the end.