(Tell me this shit isn't scripted)
from The Guardian (H/T T)
World leaders are “gambling with their children’s and grandchildren’s health and wellbeing” by failing to prepare for a future p(L)andemic, a new report warns.
Amid surging cases of H5N1 bird flu in mammals, and an mpox outbreak in central Africa, two senior stateswomen have said the lack of preparation had left the world vulnerable to “devastation”.
Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia, were co-chairs of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, which was set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020.
At a World Health Assembly in May 2021, the panel set out a series of recommendations to change how the world tackled pandemic threats and avoid mistakes made during the Covid-19 response.
Today, they said that at the current rate of preparation, the world would probably be overwhelmed by any new pandemic threat...
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