A New Global Architecture for Health
As the World Health Assembly gathers this week for a special session, its task is nothing less than preventing a tragedy like COVID-19 from recurring. Specifically, the world needs a legally binding international agreement to prevent future infectious-disease outbreaks from becoming pandemics.
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EDINBURGH – The damage caused by COVID-19 – exacerbated by the continued appearance of new variants, most recently Omicron – has been catastrophic. More than five million lives worldwide have already been lost to COVID-19, and with confirmed cases on track to swell from 260 million today to 460 million by next autumn, the World Health Organization estimates that five million more people may die from the disease in the coming months.