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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.
World leaders could have stopped Covid-19 pandemic but failed - scathing WHO-commissioned report May 12, 2021, 02:14 PM
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A proper global response could have averted the Covid-19 pandemic, a WHO-backed report found.
A fundamental transformation is needed to prevent a future pandemic, its authors said.
It was critical of both national leaders and the WHO itself, which was slow to declare an emergency.
The Covid-19 pandemic, and most of its death and devastation, could have been averted by a proper global response, a WHO-backed panel said on Thursday.
The report, by the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, said that the resources and know-how to control the coronavirus existed all along, but world leaders failed to use them properly.