This reinforced our belief that when you involve people you are trying to reach in your planning, you really get valuable insights for giving the programme the best chance of success.
Thanks are extended to Dr. Kazuo Saito and members of the second laboratory of the forecast research department of MRI for giving valuable comments.
We would like to thank all the partners in the EU consortium project BioREFINE-2G, in particular Irina Borodina and Vratislav Stovicek for sharing their CRISPR Cas9 system and for giving valuable input.
We thank two anonymous reviewers for giving valuable comments and suggestions.
We are indebted to Madame Sylvaine Porcherat (CIC-EC de La Réunion) for providing additional data, Eric D'Ortenzio, Philippe Renault and Laurent Filleul, from the Cellule Inter-Régionale d'Epidémiologie (CIRE) Réunion-Mayotte for giving valuable information on influenza trends during the pandemic wave and helpful advices for interpreting the data on a regional basis.
Helge Garåsen for giving valuable comments to the manuscript.
We are grateful to Dr. Xiaoquan Qi and Dr. Jirong Huang from Chinese Academy of Science for giving valuable suggestions and supports on this research.
The authors are also very grateful to Silvia Seegers (Inst. of Pathology, University of Regensburg) for giving valuable input and Gerhard Piendl (Dept. of Gynecology, University of Regensburg) who provided perfect technical assistance.
It is rather for me to thank all of you for giving your valuable time to attend and to contribute to this consultation on what I regard as one of the most urgent aspects of the pandemic.
We express our thanks to Dr. Scott W. Roy, National Institutes of Health, for giving us valuable advice, and Prof. Christopher A. Loretz, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and Dr. Jean M. Michalec, Sophia University, for reading the manuscript.
