Kai KupferschmidtMay 6, 2023

“One of the greatest tragedies of COVID-19 is that it didn’t have to be this way,” Tedros said. The tools to detect and respond to pandemics better are available. „But globally, a lack of coordination, a lack of equity and a lack of solidarity meant that those tools were not used as effectively as they could have been. Lives were lost that should not have been.”

https://www.science.org/content/article/who-ends-pandemic-emergency-covid-19-deaths-fall

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Tedros: “The worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that COVID-19 is nothing to worry about,” he said.

He is describing Ireland (EU).

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@fae2535 @kakape way too late for that .. damn them all.
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yes.
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