One example: In finding the tools to battle the pandemic, researchers also saw the potential for those tools to be used to battle other diseases.
In light of all else that was happening, the firing of the gun — like clockwork at noon, from the fort overlooking the harbour, every day barring Christmas since 1857 — seemed somewhat trivial at the time. But its silencing was a symbol of the disruption of normalcy, both ominous and portentous.
On Friday, the WHO called an end to the global COVID emergency; by its count, 1,221 days after first learning of a cluster of cases of a pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China. It shone a light into some of the ugly cracks in our societal façade, and what we saw there, it seems, may remain etched into our memories as long as those images of our elderly looking through the windows of their long-term-care homes at family they might never again embrace.
And that situation was exacerbated as many richer countries battling the epidemic fended for themselves first, in blithe denial of the concept that led to the formation of the WHO in the first place — that diseases recognize neither borders nor socio-economic strata.In battling this pandemic, we now have a plan, both on a global and national scale, to fight the next — inevitable — one. And, knowing the consequences for failure, the world’s leaders can ignore that plan at their own peril.
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