TY - JOUR
T1 - A solution scan of societal options to reduce transmission and spread of respiratory viruses
T2 - SARS-CoV-2 as a case study
AU - Sutherland, William J.
AU - Taylor, Nigel G.
AU - Aldridge, David C.
AU - Martin, Philip
AU - Rhodes, Catherine
AU - Shackelford, Gorm
AU - Beard, Simon
AU - Belfield, Haydn
AU - Bladon, Andrew J.
AU - Brick, Cameron
AU - Christie, Alec P.
AU - Dobson, Andrew P.
AU - Downey, Harriet
AU - Hood, Amelia S.C.
AU - Hua, Fangyuan
AU - Hughes, Alice C.
AU - Jarvis, Rebecca M.
AU - MacFarlane, Douglas
AU - Morgan, William H.
AU - Mupepele, Anne Christine
AU - Marciniak, Stefan J.
AU - Nelson, Cassidy
AU - Ó hÉigeartaigh, Seán
AU - Rios Rojas, Clarissa
AU - Sainsbury, Katherine A.
AU - Smith, Rebecca K.
AU - Sundaram, Lalitha S.
AU - Thornton, Ann
AU - Watkins, John
AU - White, Thomas B.
AU - Willott, Kate
AU - Petrovan, Silviu O.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank our advisory board for guidance, Des Browne, Polly Courtice, Martin Rees, and Mark Welland. For funding, we are grateful to The David and Claudia Harding Foundation, Arcadia, and MAVA. Mark Burgman, Lynn Dicks, Riikka Savolainen, Jonathan Spencer, and Hannah Tankard provided useful comments on earlier versions of the manuscript. For suggesting ideas on Twitter that we included, we thank Steph Bradbeer @stephjbradbeer, Steven Byrnes @steve47285, Lorna Cole @LornaC, Deano @Deano80783668, Mike Hudson @DrMike_Hudson, Steve Jones @SteveCJjones, Liam Langan @langan_liam, Littlerobbergirl @lilrobbergirl, Grainne McCabe @grainne_mccabe, Julie McMurray @figgyjam, Simon Miller @simoncmiller, Manu Saunders @ManuSaunders, Grania Smith @geepsmith, Rob Thomas @RobThomas14, Diogo Ver?ssimo @verissimodiogo, Chris West @ChrisW_SEI, Claire Wordley @clairefrwordley, and Lucy Wright @_LucyWright. For suggesting other ideas, we thank Carol Bladon, James L. Clarke, David Fell, Mark Ferguson, Hugh Gault, Tony Guy, Garth Kroeker, Matthias Landgraf, John Perry, Jeff Ross, and Jeremy Vine. We thank the editor, Zhenjun Li, and the anonymous reviewers for their time and comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Societal biosecurity – measures built into everyday society to minimize risks from pests and diseases – is an important aspect of managing epidemics and pandemics. We aimed to identify societal options for reducing the transmission and spread of respiratory viruses. We used SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) as a case study to meet the immediate need to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and eventually transition to more normal societal conditions, and to catalog options for managing similar pandemics in the future. We used a ‘solution scanning’ approach. We read the literature; consulted psychology, public health, medical, and solution scanning experts; crowd-sourced options using social media; and collated comments on a preprint. Here, we present a list of 519 possible measures to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission and spread. We provide a long list of options for policymakers and businesses to consider when designing biosecurity plans to combat SARS-CoV-2 and similar pathogens in the future. We also developed an online application to help with this process. We encourage testing of actions, documentation of outcomes, revisions to the current list, and the addition of further options.
AB - Societal biosecurity – measures built into everyday society to minimize risks from pests and diseases – is an important aspect of managing epidemics and pandemics. We aimed to identify societal options for reducing the transmission and spread of respiratory viruses. We used SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) as a case study to meet the immediate need to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and eventually transition to more normal societal conditions, and to catalog options for managing similar pandemics in the future. We used a ‘solution scanning’ approach. We read the literature; consulted psychology, public health, medical, and solution scanning experts; crowd-sourced options using social media; and collated comments on a preprint. Here, we present a list of 519 possible measures to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission and spread. We provide a long list of options for policymakers and businesses to consider when designing biosecurity plans to combat SARS-CoV-2 and similar pathogens in the future. We also developed an online application to help with this process. We encourage testing of actions, documentation of outcomes, revisions to the current list, and the addition of further options.
KW - Biosecurity
KW - COVID-19
KW - Coronavirus
KW - Disease control
KW - New normal
KW - Public health
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jobb.2021.08.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jobb.2021.08.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 34541465
AN - SCOPUS:85121592729
VL - 3
SP - 84
EP - 90
JO - Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity
JF - Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity
SN - 2588-9338
IS - 2
ER -