Covid pandemic was preventable, says WHO-commissioned report- good read

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/12/covid-pandemic-was-preventable-says-who-commissioned-report

The Covid pandemic was a preventable disaster that need not have cost millions of lives if the world had reacted more quickly, according to an independent high-level panel, which castigates global leaders and calls for major changes to bring it to an end and ensure it cannot happen again.

The report of the panel, chaired by the former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a former president of Liberia, found “weak links at every point in the chain”.

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It said preparation was inconsistent and underfunded, the alert system too slow and too meek, while the World Health Organization was underpowered. It concluded the response had exacerbated inequalities. “Global political leadership was absent,” the report said.

Clark described February 2020 as “a month of lost opportunity to avert a pandemic, as so many countries chose to wait and see”.

“For some, it wasn’t until hospital ICU beds began to fill that more action was taken,” she said. “And by then it was too late to avert the pandemic impact. What followed then was a winner takes all scramble for PPE and therapeutics. Globally, health workers were tested to their limits and the rates of infection, illness and death soared and continue to soar.”

[JohnSJ]

1. Unfortunately, WHO was also part of that problem in their initial response to it. They didn't

even want to initially declare it a pandemic

[PoliticAverse]

2. One country had the chance to stop the pandemic from happening.

And they lied about the situation crippling the world's response.

"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China,"

[lagomorph777]

3. I thought you were going to say the USA.

China eventually admitted to and dealt with it. We never did, until we got rid of Turd.

[malaise]

4. and dealt with it

That's the key.