Read on Twitter
Ten questions we need to answer now. 1. Despite having some of the most scientifically advanced societies in the world, why have most countries so abjectly failed to protect their peoples from the worst consequences of this pandemic?
2. How do international institutions hold national leaders accountable for their mostly failed responses to COVID-19?
3. What should countries do to prioritise the protection of vulnerable key populations from COVID-19—BAME, the poor, the excluded, the marginalised, those with chronic illness, and frontline workers, including in health?
4. How do we prepare the public for a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, while anti-vaxx movements mobilise?
5. How do societies build resilient health systems—indeed, what is a resilient health system?
6. Why did the international community fail to unite to defeat this pandemic?
7. How can nations now be convened to mount a global response to a continuing global threat?
8. Given the mounting worldwide anti-China sentiment, what is the most constructive and peaceful strategy we should have towards China?
9. Given the harm that will be caused to WHO by US withdrawal from the world’s only global health agency, what can be done to strengthen and support WHO?
10. This pandemic could be a catalyst for significant and surprising social and political change—how do we make those progressive changes happen?
Please add to these questions. We need an engaged and active conversation about lessons from the past and plans for the future.
