Just $5 per person a year could prevent future pandemic, says ex-WHO head
by Karen McVeigh from Science | The Guardian on (#582XG)
Cost would be billions, but represents a huge saving on $11tn response to Covid-19, estimates show
Spending $5 (3.90) per person annually on global health security over the next five years could prevent a future catastrophic" pandemic, according to a former head of the World Health Organization (WHO).
It would cost the world billions of dollars, but that amount would be a huge saving on the $11tn response to Covid-19, said Gro Harlem Brundtland, who, with other prominent international experts, sounded the alarm over the threat of a fast-spreading deadly pandemic last September.
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