Archive Month: October 2020

31 October 2020

A Global Playbook for the Next Pandemic

How can countries protect themselves against the next pandemic — which will more than likely come in just a few years, according to epidemiological models? Do the math for yourself: COVID-19, Zika, Ebola, Middle East respiratory syndrome, swine flu, and severe acute respiratory syndrome together make six pandemics and epidemics in the past 18 years. As we have so recently learned, an epidemic in one country spreads all too quickly around our interconnected world. So, the clear answer to the question is that we must write a global playbook for the next pandemic that includes all countries at various levels of development.