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Future generations may not forgive the World Health Organization’s member nations, should they fail to agree on a pandemic treaty, the organization’s chief said Saturday at the Warwick Economic Summit, calling the agreement “mission critical for humanity.”

Despite lessons that should have been learned during COVID-19, the world is unprepared for the next pandemic, be it an influenza virus, another coronavirus, or “Disease X”—a term the organization has used since 2018 to refer to a yet-unknown pandemic pathogen, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, speaking virtually from Geneva at the summit, held in Coventry, England.

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[-] iterable@sh.itjust.works 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The amount of compium I see in people is scary. This was the warning. Next time could be so much worse and all I see are adults who just act like children. *EDIT Had to add so many people I use to even respect. Once they were told to many times what to do had adult temper tantrums. Acting straight out weird.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 17 points 4 months ago

Ebola was the preview. COVID was the tutorial. We barely got through them after countless sacrifices made by people who actually gave a damn and even put their own lives at risk.

[-] GhostFence@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Never was sure how Captain Trips spread so easily in The Stand. Boy did COVID make it clear how easy it happened.

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