If not now, then when? : pandemic investigator urges reforms
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12/05/2021 - 12:54 Michel Kazatchkine called for immediate action to ensure the world must never again face a catastrophe Fabrice COFFRINI AFP 3 min
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One investigator behind Wednesday s explosive report highlighting the mistakes that allowed Covid-19 to flourish told AFP that urgent reform was needed to withstand future pandemic threats.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response found that bad decisions, dithering and poor coordination created a toxic cocktail which allowed Covid-19 go on to kill at least 3.3 million people so far and upend the global economy.
Panel member Michel Kazatchkine, a French diplomat and former director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, called for immediate action to ensure the world must never again face a catastrophe like the Covid-19 crisis.
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Experts say world could have prevented Covid catastrophe Global independent panel says a series of bad decisions meant Covid-19 went on to kill at least 3.3 million people so far In long-awaited final report, experts call on richest countries to donate a billion vaccine doses to the poorest to tackle current pandemic
GENEVA – The catastrophic scale of the Covid-19 pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel concluded on Wednesday, but a toxic cocktail of dithering and poor coordination meant the warning signs went unheeded.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) said a series of bad decisions meant Covid-19 went on to kill at least 3.3 million people so far and devastate the global economy. Institutions failed to protect people and science-denying leaders eroded public trust in health interventions, the panel said in its long-awaited final report.