Covid 19 coronavirus: Response was a global series of failures, WHO-established panel says
19 Jan, 2021 01:47 AM
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Medical staff in protective outfit wait for patients in Wuhan, January 2020. Photo / Getty Images
New York Times
By: Selam Gebrekidan and Matt Apuzzo
An interim report is both a bleak recounting of deadly missteps and an early blueprint for repairs: We have failed in our collective capacity. Laying bare a yearlong cascade of failures, a World Health Organisation panel recounts in a damning report how governments and public health organisations worldwide responded slowly and ineffectively to the coronavirus, despite years of warnings.
The interim report, an early blueprint for reform, describes the faulty assumptions, ineffective planning and sluggish responses including missteps by the WHO itself that helped fuel a pandemic that has killed more than 2 million people.
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The report highlights how governments and public health organizations worldwide responded slowly and ineffectively to the coronavirus, despite years of warnings.
9:41 p.m. ET, January 19, 2021
San Francisco s health department will run out of Covid-19 vaccine doses by Thursday, mayor says
From CNN s Alexandra Meeks
Dr. Sean McElligott pulls out boxes containing the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at Seton Medical Center on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, in Daly City, near San Francisco, California. Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images
Amid an increased demand for coronavirus vaccines nationwide, San Francisco s Department of Public Health announced their vaccine supply will be exhausted by Thursday if they don t immediately receive an additional allotment. All of the Department of Public Health s remaining vaccine doses are scheduled for individuals to receive their first or second doses this week and unless we get more vaccine, the Department of Public Health will run out of our existing supply by this Thursday, Mayor London Breed said at a news conference Tuesday.
A probe into the the WHO s pandemic response found that its failings could be attributed to the weak position of the UN agency, and said more funding and reforms were desperately needed.