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According to Chris Copland, parent representative and co-chair of FAIR, who underlines the \'thousands of young lives we lose to cancer every year in Europe alone,\' the current common exclusion of patients under 18 \'bears little relation to science, safety, or compassion \' According to Stella Kyriakides, the commissioner for health, \'following the developments in Italy, the commission is stepping up its support to member states \' [ ]100 million will be put into a partnership with the pharmaceutical industry in a search for a vaccine, with another $10 million for research on epidemiology, diagnostics, therapeutics, and clinical management in containment and prevention Since the outbreak was reported in China, the EU has activated its own early warning and response system, and after an emergency meeting of health ministers from the member states, it coordinated work with ECDC and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on risk assessments, case definition for diagnosis and reporting, and information on therapeutics and vaccines
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