Medical Xpress January 8, 2025
An awkward question remains five years after COVID-19 began its deadly rampage: is the world ready to handle the next pandemic?
The World Health Organization, which was at the heart of the pandemic response, has been galvanizing efforts to determine where the next threat might come from and to ensure the planet is ready to face it.
But while the UN health agency considers the world more prepared than it was when COVID hit, it warns we are not nearly ready enough.
View from the WHO
Asked whether the world was better prepared for the next pandemic, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said recently: “Yes and no”.
“If the next pandemic arrived today, the world would still face some of...
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