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我们是公共卫生领域的科学家,始终密切关注2019冠状病毒病(COVID-19)的发生和发展,也对该疾病给全球人类健康福祉带来的影响深感担忧。同时,我们也看到特别是中国的科学家、公共卫生从业者和医务人员,务实、高效、迅速查明病原体,采取重大措施降低疫情影响,并与全球健康界分享成果,做到信息透明化。他们不懈的努力值得称赞。
通过签署此声明,我们愿和所有继续在COVID-19暴发期间拯救生命、守护全球卫生的中国科学家及健康工作者团结在一起。疫情面前,我们同舟共济,与奋战在一线的中国同僚共同抗击这种新型病毒的威胁。
此次疫情期间,数据信息做到迅速、公开、透明化共享,但却在当下遭受有关疾病起源的谣言和虚假信息的不良影响。我们在此一同强烈谴责“认为COVID-19并非自然起源”的阴谋论。世界多国的科学家都分析了病原体“严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2型(SARS-CoV-2)”的基因组,并公开发表了分析结果[1],压倒性地得出一致结论,即此种冠状病毒起源于野生动物[2-10],这和其他许多新发病原体一样[11, 12]。这项结论更是进一步得到了美国国家科学院、工程院、医学院的院长们[13]及其所代表的科学界人士的来信支持。阴谋论除了在抗击疫情期间制造威胁全球团结力量的恐慌、谣言、偏见外,一无是处。我们支持世界卫生组织(WHO)总干事的呼吁,要推进科学论证和团结,拒绝谣言与揣测 [14]。我们希望所有的读者以及中国所有科研和医务人员知道:在这场病毒阻击战中,我们与你们同在。
我们邀请更多人加入,一同支持武汉和中国各地的科学家、公共卫生从业者及医务人员。让我们共同在抗疫一线携手前行!END
作者介绍及声明
LM is editor of ProMED-mail. We declare no competing interests.
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA (CC); Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Texas A&M, College Station, TX, USA (DC); University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA (RC); NEIDL Institute (RBC), Boston University (GTK), Boston, MA, USA; EcoHealth Alliance, New York, NY, USA (PD); Charité – Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany (CD); National Center of Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain (LE); The Wellcome Trust, London, UK (JF, JG, MT); School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (HF); Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands (AG); Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands (BH); Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA (JMH); World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Working Group on Wildlife, New York, NY, USA (WBK); University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (SKL); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy (JL); Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia (JSM); Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA (LM); University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA (JM); Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine, Mt Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA (PP); University of Iowa, Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA (SP); The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (LP); University of Chicago, Chigaco, IL, USA (BR); The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA (LS); and The University of Melbourne, Melboune, VIC, Australia (KS)
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