Although it looks pretty good in the text, World Health Organization (WHO) responded to your report Lancet Commission points to “major shortcomings” and “misconceptions” about the pandemic. Specifically, the body led Tedros Adhanom GhebreyesusRecognizing that the commission of experts supports its central role in global health, he argues that its response to the coronavirus has been “instant, multi-year and lifesaving” since it received the first warning from China on 30 December 2019.
Reports by nearly thirty experts from various fields from the magazine’s commission, as reported on Thursday by Faro de Vigo and other Prensa Ibérica newspapers Lancetdescribed the management of the pandemic as a “major global failure”, causing millions of preventable deaths among the estimated 17 million victims. In addition, the mistakes left millions of vulnerable people unprotected and reversed the progress made in this regard. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) UN in many countries
“The delays by WHO in declaring a public health emergency of international importance and airborne transmission of the SARS COV-2 It coincided with the lack of cooperation and coordination of national governments on travel protocols, testing strategies, commodity supply chains, data reporting systems, and other international policies vital to combating the pandemic,” states the report of The Lancet experts. American epidemiologist Jeffrey V. Lazarus, working in Spain, is the only author associated with Spain. OHSglobal, Hospital Clinic and University of Barcelona.
In a statement released this Thursday, WHO said on 30 December 2019. WHO received the first alert of pneumonia of unknown cause in the USA. Wuhan and the next day asked Chinese health officials for more information.
WHO is offering a timeline of its actions to mid-February, which includes issuing a “global warning to all member states” on 5 January 2020. “This has alerted member states and told them to identify cases, care for patients, and prevent infection and person-to-person transmission of acute respiratory pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential.
On January 30, 2020, when 98 cases (and no deaths) were reported in 18 countries outside of China, the CEO said: tedros ahanom, reconvened the Emergency Committee, which declared that the outbreak constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Tedros followed his advice and declared a PHEIC, issuing interim recommendations on how countries can prepare and respond.
The report “The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future of the COVID-19 pandemic” report, for its part, does not analyze each country’s individual response, but points out that several Western European countries are recording large numbers. In the early stages of the epidemic, especially in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and England. He underlines that they came to these countries by plane. Chinese “Many people became infected” in January 2020 and early February. Experts from The Lancet say that “several tests were conducted in the first weeks of the epidemic and there was a huge increase in cases in March 2020,” denouncing these European governments. countries “aimed not to suppress the epidemic, but only to stop the transmission of the virus”.
Regarding the routes of infection, most WHO “We have been warned repeatedly about the potential for asymptomatic person-to-person transmission, Notably presymptomatic transmission even in late January in a surveillance guideline on 29 January.
In airborne contamination, experts Lancet They condemn him for taking more than a year to recognize him, WHO says it warned him on January 10, 2020, albeit only for healthcare settings. In its defence, WHO claims to “lead and coordinate a multidisciplinary and inter-agency international technical consultation process to discuss and reach consensus on airborne pathogens.”