A year without precedent: WHO’s COVID-19 response
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Taking stock of all that’s been achieved – and the partnerships working to end the pandemic.
It was the scenario the public health community had feared for decades. A dangerous virus emerges. It spreads rapidly around the world.
COVID-19 infects people when they come together, but coming together is also how we will beat it. 2020 saw the world unite against the virus, from small personal gestures to protect others, to international collaboration on research and innovation. The year ends with COVID-19 vaccines rolling out – an extraordinary feat.
Science, solutions and solidarity have been WHO’s tools for addressing the biggest health threat of the past century – this is the story of the response we built with them.
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‘In bid to contain Covid-19, global response was over-emphasised at expense of national initiatives’
Still, itt would be a mistake to address the inadequacies in the WHO response by dismantling the organisation or abandoning it, says author Andrew Lakoff. Dec 18, 2020 · 03:30 pm A healthcare worker ollects a swab sample from a man at a weekly market in New Delhi on October 13. | Anushree Fadnavis/ Reuters
Manjari Mahajan, co-editor of
Pandemic Discourses, interviewed Andrew Lakoff, professor of sociology and Communication at the University of Southern California and author, most recently, of
Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency.
Excerpts from the interview:
Call it 2020 vision.
As we do when a year comes to a close, Realscreen is offering a look back at the major stories impacting the unscripted and non-fiction content industry over the course of the past 12 months. This year, of course, offered more than its share of unprecedented challenges. Still, as you’ll see in these recaps, the industry met them with innovation and dedication, and continues to do so as 2021 approaches. For our first look back at 2020, we examine the impact of the coronavirus upon the non-fiction screen content business.
At the end of February just a month after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” for the virus it had named COVID-19 the film and TV industry was teetering on the brink of a shutdown.
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