Editorial: Cutting Covid no slack

ABSTRACT

Not only the public media, but also the scientific press is currently hit by a plethora of Covid-19 manuscripts. To contribute its part, but add some broader insight, the EJHG decided to devote space to several brief overview reports of a number of large international Covid-19 focused initiatives, which you can find in the POLICY section of this ESHG issue. On one hand, these are the responses of existing and well-established ESFRI infrastructures, aimed to channel their historic strengths to this new challenge. One is from ELIXIR, the proven and tried infrastructure established to organize the European research data arena with EBI as central hub, but connecting a large number of national nodes throughout Europe, and now gearing up to turn its longstanding expertise and model into maximizing the access to data and materials.