Covid-19 lessons not being learned, says global body that predicted pandemic

In September 2019, three months before the world first learned of a new virus that would spark a global pandemic, a health watchdog released a report painting a dire picture of a planet at risk of a crisis.There was a “very real threat” of a rapidly moving, highly lethal respiratory pathogen starting a pandemic, killing tens of millions and wiping trillions off the global economy, members of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) wrote in their inaugural report. “The world is not…

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