Major overhaul of WHO needed after failures, says Covid panel
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May 13 |
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May 13, 2021
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The panel’s report linked the severity of the global outbreak to deficiencies across governments and multilateral organisations
The World Health Organization should be overhauled and given more authority to investigate global disease threats, according to a review of the international Covid-19 response that found a myriad of failures, gaps, and delays that allowed the coronavirus to mushroom into a pandemic.
While stopping short of assigning blame to any particular factor, the report released Wednesday by an independent panel co-chaired by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark linked the severity of the global outbreak to deficiencies across governments, the WHO and other multilateral organisations, and regulations that guide official actions.
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A local expert in health system planning says a new report looking into how COVID-19 became a pandemic is far too soft on the World Health Organization (WHO).
And he says New Zealand s success is at handling the pandemic mostly down to dumb, good luck , after following the WHO s mistaken advice.
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COVID-19: Make It the Last Pandemic report, compiled by the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response co-chaired by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, found a toxic cocktail of poor decision-making and a lack of global coordination was to blame.
CCP Virus Pandemic Was ‘Preventable Disaster’ and ‘Terrible Wake-up Call’: WHO-Commissioned Panel
A panel of independent experts commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a scathing rebuke of the global reaction to COVID-19, calling the outbreak a “preventable disaster” and a “terrible wake-up call” that exposed weak links along the entire chain of pandemic preparation and response.
In a report issued Wednesday (pdf), the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response blamed countries worldwide for their sluggish response to the outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, saying most waited to see how the virus was spreading until it was too late to contain it, leading to catastrophic results.