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'A toxic cocktail:' Panel delivers harsh verdict on the world's failure to prepare for pandemic

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Kai KupferschmidtScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.There was warning after warning after warning, and yet the world failed to do what was needed to prepare for a pandemic, the first comprehensive review of the global response to COVID-19 finds.

This lack of preparation left countries short of essential supplies, burdened by under-resourced health systems, and scrambling to coordinate a response, while large vulnerable populations had few options to protect themselves.“The combination of poor strategic choices, unwillingness to tackle inequalities, and an uncoordinated system created a toxic cocktail which allowed the pandemic to turn into a catastrophic human crisis,” the Independent Panel for.

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