PREDICT Emerging Pandemic Threats Project - Coronavirus Extension

The PREDICT Consortium strengthened global preparedness for emerging threats, in particular to detect viruses that may have the potential to spillover from wild animal hosts to people. As part of USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats program, PREDICT was implemented from October 2009 through September 2020 by the PREDICT Consortium, as a multi-institutional cross-disciplinary team with numerous global, implementing and government partners in 30 countries (see https://ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/programs-projects/predict-project/authorship for a list of contributors). This project pioneered a One Health approach to emerging infectious virus surveillance and risk communication at high-risk human-wildlife interfaces. This data asset and related datasets contain the test results of the PREDICT Coronavirus Extension Project, implemented from March 2020 through September 2020 to perform additional coronavirus PCR testing on archived animal specimens collected from 2009 to 2019.