National risk assessments: a political vaccine against the next disaster?
URL copied to clipboard In January 2020, the severity of the coronavirus outbreak caught most people by surprise. Public attention was glued to terrorism. While the health risk to individuals received immediate attention, it took time for the media and authorities to recognise the wider societal consequences of the pandemic, including its impact on the health system. As Luka Biong Deng Kuol writes in a recent PRIO blog post on African responses: COVID-19 has exposed serious cracks in systems of government, capacities of states and public policies. Importantly, it has underscored the need ...
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