Dismay as funding for UK’s ‘world-beating’ Covid trackers is axed
by James Tapper from on (#5X1ES)
Scientists at home and abroad criticise decision to cancel widely admired infection-surveillance projects including React-1 and Zoe
If anything about the UK's response to Covid-19 was world-beating, it was our surveillance system. From the World Health Organization to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), public health teams around the world have praised the UK's infection-tracking capability, and used our data to plan their own pandemic measures.
Despite this health ministers have cancelled future funding for the React-1 study and other research projects. The decision has been met with dismay among leading scientists and researchers worldwide, who have questioned the UK's ability to respond to future Covid threats.
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