Covid pandemic was preventable, says WHO-commissioned report
by Sarah Boseley Health editor from World news | The Guardian on (#5HQSW)
Independent high-level panel castigates global leaders and calls for major changes to ensure it cannot happen again
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 Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia, found weak links at every point in the chain".
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