In the coronavirus crisis, our leaders are failing us | Gordon Brown

As I learned in the 2008 crash, a global problem requires governments to work together. Today's populist nationalism puts us all at risk

It need not be this way but one of the most disastrous weeks in the history of global medicine and global economics has ended with country after country retreating into their national silos. They are fighting their own individual battles against coronavirus and in their own way.

Each country has, of course, its own distinctive health systems that it relies on, rightly values its own medical experts and the disease is at a different stage in each. But why is there, as yet, no internationally coordinated medical project - equivalent to the wartime Manhattan Project - mobilising all available global resources to discover a coronavirus vaccine and to fast-track a cure?

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