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Corona pandemic: A missed opportunity – what we could have learned

Corona pandemic: A missed opportunity – what we could have learned

A pandemic had been expected for years. There were plans, admonitions and warnings. When it was there, knowledge could have been gained that would have promised more security for decades. That failed. Why?

By Hristio Boytchev; Cooperation: Christoph Koch and Frank Ochmann

Three years and three months of international emergency are now over: At the beginning of May, the World Health Organization (WHO) lifted the “public health emergency of international concern”, the highest alert level that an infectious disease can trigger. “The pandemic has been following a declining trend for a year,” said WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and at the same time he brought bad news with the good news: 20 million deaths worldwide.

Source: Stern

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