Medical Xpress October 17, 2024
Two articles by University of Otago, Christchurch, researchers in this week’s New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ) raise concerns about global and local readiness to deal with a future pandemic—with one saying we risk falling into “a cycle of panic and neglect” and the other exposing self-reported gaps in health worker preparedness.
In the journal’s editorial, concerns have been raised by two of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading voices in the COVID-19 pandemic—former University of Otago Vice Chancellor and government vaccine taskforce epidemiologist Professor David Murdoch, and the man who led Aotearoa’s COVID-19 response, former Director General of Health Sir Ashley Bloomfield.
Both claim there’s a sense of “collective global amnesia” about the COVID-19 pandemic, with investment in pandemic prevention, preparedness and...
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