on March 15, 2024
Dear Colleagues,
Monday marked the 4-year anniversary of the WHO’s designation of the Covid-19 outbreak as a “pandemic”. While commemorating (but also looking ahead), Tedros quoted Albert Camus in a Time(ly) piece, COVID-19 Shows Why the World Needs a Pandemic Agreement : “There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” – a quote from the novel “La Peste”. As you might recall, the world also got to know another ‘Albert’ during the pandemic. Let’s just hope the latter’s laser-style “equity focus” won’t be witnessed again in future pandemics (PS: as it’s crunch time now for the INB negotiations, perhaps global health activists could borrow a few tractors from farmers, in order to ‘get some vital messages across” in the streets of Geneva (and Washington, Brussels, London,….) 😊).
This brings us to “the” topic of the week, at least in global health corners: the revised draft of the pandemic agreement...