At its core, the Biden administration’s multilateral strategy depends upon securing a meaningful return on investment for U.S. taxpayers. After 500,000 needless deaths, exercising checkbook diplomacy at the WHO is as good a test case as any.
On Jan. 23, 2020, the day the novel coronavirus forced the Chinese city of Wuhan into lockdown, two American doctors named Seth Berkley and Richard Hatchett met at the bar of the Hard Rock Hotel in Davos, Switzerland, to talk about vaccines.
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‘COVID-19: Make it the Last Pandemic’ is the aspirational title of the recently released report by the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.[[1]] This panel, co-chaired by Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was convened in mid-2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO) to assess the global handling of COVID-19.
The report is predictably grim reading. The panel found weak links at every point in the chain of preparedness and response. Preparation was inconsistent and underfunded, alert systems were too slow and meek, WHO was under-powered, responses exacerbated inequities and global leadership was absent.
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Learn lessons from our COVID-19 response, or our health system could suffer the consequences.
That’s the leading message from a group of five academics from the Universities of Otago, Canterbury and Massey, who say a failure to learn from this and previous outbreaks could result in a loss of time, knowledge and momentum for future crises.
Professor David Murdoch, the Dean of University of Otago in Christchurch, is the lead author on the editorial piece in the latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal this morning.
The paper reflects on the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response’s report into COVID-19, and says that while our health system has coped well, there is still plenty to learn.
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(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On Jan. 23, 2020, the day the novel coronavirus forced the Chinese city of Wuhan into lockdown, two American doctors named Seth Berkley and Richard Hatchett met at the bar of the Hard Rock Hotel in Davos, Switzerland, to talk about vaccines.
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On Jan. 23, 2020, the day the novel coronavirus forced the Chinese city of Wuhan into lockdown, two American doctors named Seth Berkley and Richard Hatchett met at the bar of the Hard Rock Hotel in Davos, Switzerland, to talk about vaccines.
The coronavirus pandemic could have been prevented, according to an independent review panel. In a report released on May 12, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) [...]
The World Health Organization, at the heart of the world's slow and stuttering handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, faces a potential shake-up aimed at preventing future outbreaks from destroying lives...
The World Health Organization, at the heart of the world's slow and stuttering handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, faces a potential shake-up aimed at preventing future outbreaks from destroying lives and livelihoods. Health ministers agreed on Monday to study recommendations for ambitious reforms made by independent experts to strengthen the capacity of both the U.N. agency
Health ministers of all 194 member states agreed to study recommendations for ambitious reforms made by independent experts to strengthen the capacity of both the UN agency and countries to contain new viruses