Peter Piot reacts to Report of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness & Response
Peter Piot reacts to Report of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness & Response 12 May 2021 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png I very much welcome the Independent Panel’s report and its clear - and at times bold - recommendations. Share
Reacting to the findings of Covid-19: Make it the Last Pandemic, a report compiled by the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, Professor Peter Piot said: I very much welcome the Independent Panel’s report and it’s clear - and at times bold - recommendations for urgent actions to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control. Crucially it also lays the foundation to prevent future epidemics from spiraling into global emergencies.
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While numbers are declining in every other region globally, cases in India are still soaring and made up half the new cases worldwide over the last week.
A crucial hearing on the COVID issue is listed before a three-judge Bench of Justices Chandrachud, L. Nageswara Rao and S. Ravindra Bhat for hearing on May 13. The Bench had constituted the National Task Force to scientifically study and recommend a foolproof mechanism for allocation of oxygen to States.
“The reason that India is in such dire straits now is that they had an original surge and made the incorrect assumption that they were finished with it, and what happened, they opened up prematurely and wind up having a surge right now that we’re all very well aware of is extremely devastating,” Dr. Fauci told the Senate Health, Education, Labour and Pensions Committee during a hearing on the COVID-19 response.