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Editorial: COVID-19 anniversary finds a fractured nation less prepared for future outbreaks
Politicization of the COVID-19 response reduced the appetite for a thorough review or an honest accounting of how to improve.
Editorial: Five years later, the lessons of COVID elude many
Five years on, we are less prepared for another outbreak, so it is valuable to consider what we learned, what mistakes were ...
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Foreign Affairs1dOpinion
The Coming Global Health Crisis
Critics of the Trump administration’s early actions on global health—withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) and paralyzing U.S.-funded international health programs—fear that those moves ...
How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse — and for better
Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...
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Trump is right: The World Health Organization isn’t working
The abrupt halt to U.S. involvement in the World Health Organization has caused considerable and immediate uncertainty for global health. But it can also signal a new opportunity to fix at last ...
Photos: The 5-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the first in over a century. The international ...
China calls for global business to ‘resist protectionism’ as American executives gather in Beijing
China is prepared for “possible unexpected shocks,” Premier Li Qiang told a gathering of global executives in Beijing, where he urged them to “resist protectionism” and defend globalization.
It’s not China or the US: This country has 11 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world
Poor air quality poses serious health risks to humans. Industry, energy, and the transportation sector are all major ...
WHO flags funding shortage risk in Afghanistan
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said that the agency is concerned about funding shortages in Afghanistan which ...
First US Outbreak of H7N9 Bird Flu Since 2017 Spurs Health Worry
The first outbreak in the US of deadly H7N9 bird flu strain since 2017 was detected in a Mississippi poultry farm, raising fresh health concerns.Most Read from BloombergICE Eyes Massive California ...