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The Lancet COVID-19 Commission said in a report released on Wednesday that governments around the world “have shown themselves unreliable and powerless” during the coronavirus pandemic, resulting in millions of deaths and multiple deaths. It wrote that it led to a “massive global failure” at the level.
“Too many governments fail to adhere to basic norms of institutional rationality and transparency, and too many people, often influenced by misinformation, fail to implement basic public health precautions. Downplaying, protesting, and the failure of world powers to work together to bring the pandemic under control,” a panel of international experts wrote.
The committee also urged the scientific community to intensify its investigation into the origin of the virus that causes COVID-19.
“The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 is not yet known,” the committee wrote. “Identifying these origins will give us greater clarity not only on the causes of the current pandemic, but also on our vulnerability to future outbreaks and strategies to prevent them.”
SARS-CoV-2 may have a zoonotic origin, meaning it arose from a natural spillover event such as a wet market infection.
The virus may also have research-related origins, according to the committee, due to infection by scientists in the field, infection during laboratory studies of natural viruses, or “genetically engineered viruses”. “Under study” infection is considered.
“Origin investigations require unbiased, independent, transparent and rigorous work by international teams in virology, epidemiology, bioinformatics and other related fields,” the committee wrote.
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At least 6.9 million deaths have been reported worldwide, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, but the true number may be around 17 million.
More than 1 million people have died in the United States alone, and about 350 Americans continue to die every day, according to the latest figures from the CDC.
The World Health Organization responded to the commission’s criticism on Wednesday, saying the report “does not convey the full arc of the WHO’s immediate, multi-year, life-saving response.”
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CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky last month ordered a restructuring of the agency to prepare for future pandemics.
According to a statement obtained by The Washington Post, “For 75 years, the CDC and Public Health have prepared for COVID-19, but at our critical time, our performance has certainly not lived up to expectations. “My goal is a new public health action-oriented culture at CDC that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication and timeliness.”