United Nations – Research into what happened when the world faced the coronavirus pandemic revealed that there were “weak links at each and every point in the readiness and response chain. “The World Health Organization (WHO) panel called the COVID-19 pandemic a “avoidable disaster. “
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf chaired the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, joined by politicians and experts from around the world.
The co-chairs described the group’s report as “firm but fair in its examination of how a number of factors have led to the greatest health, social and economic disaster in human memory. “
They warned that many world leaders “did not act temporarily enough when COVID-19 appeared” and added, “You will not have to keep making the same mistakes. “
The report found that WHO did not have sufficient funds and was malnourished, and that pandemic preparation, a risk that experts had warned about for years, was inconsistent and that the global alert formula was too slow and ineffective.
While the WHO fault analysis panel does not particularly point to China’s lack of data exchange on the virus that was first detected in its central city of Wuhan.
This would possibly generate enthusiasm for the country-qualified organization’s report, adding the United States, which criticized China’s initial response. But experts gave a sophisticated nod to the country’s WHO dependence on percentage data and proposed adjustments that are part of the recommendations. has done.
The 13-member panel, which sought an “honest assessment” of the crisis, said WHO will be given new powers to investigate and gather evidence of possible pandemics in any country.
The recommendations of the 86-page report pointed to “stronger leadership” in the world, with “a more specific and independent WHO”, as well as a call for a new “pandemic treaty” and a world council on world-class health threats.
Some of the recommendations include:
The organization also called on the World Trade Organization and WHO to “call on primary vaccine-producing countries and brands to reach agreement on voluntary licensing and generation transfer agreements for COVID-19 vaccines” within 3 months, or to seek “an exemption from intellectual heritage rights” for vaccines. Biden’s management has said he will make such exemptions.
With new variants of the virus infecting others around the world, CBS News’s leading medical correspondent, Dr. Jon LaPook, said fitness officials are in a race to vaccinate as many others as possible.
Last month, Vice President Kamala Harris and US Ambassador Kamala Harris, said she was in the middle of the world. But it’s not the first time Linda Thomas-Greenfield convened a global debate on pandemic preparedness, co-organized across countries on five continents (Argentina, Norway, Japan and South Africa, as well as the United States) on how the next global fitness crisis.
<< The classes of the year from beyond are clear: the global has slightly withstood this pandemic. We have to be in a position for the next one. We cannot continue to invest insufficiently, after outbreaks, epidemics and now a pandemic, in our ability to prevent, detect and respond to infectious disease threats," Thomas-Greenfield said, initiating a discussion among world political leaders, public aptitude and NGOs to be informed of COVID-19 classes and prepare for the future.