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Coronavirus was a preventable disaster that did not have to claim millions of lives, finds WHO-commissioned report Will Hayward
An independent report has found that Covid was a preventable disaster that didn t have to cost millions of lives. The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response report was commissioned by the World Health Organisation and and released on Wednesday, May 12.
One damning line from the report states: The panel has found weak links at every point in the chain of preparedness and response. Preparation was inconsistent and underfunded. The alert system was too slow and too meek. The World Health Organization was under-powered. The response has exacerbated inequalities. Global political leadership was absent.
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. The international panel of 13 eminent clinicians and former leaders calls on world leaders to meet at the United Nations General Assembly in September to start the process. “If not now, when?” Clark said. “If not today’s leaders, who?” The panel’s report,
Covid-19: Make it the Last Pandemic, says that the World Health Organisation was too slow and too meek in declaring a pandemic last year, and that too many governments dithered instead of acting to contain the virus. The panel points out that 11 high-level commissions published 16 reports after the outbreak of the deadly H1N1 swine flu in 2009, but that none had their recommendations adopted in full.