Learn pandemia lessons – before it is too late

In order for the world to wear if another contagious disease with pandemic potential appears, As Coid-19 did that five years ago??

The answer is that we just don’t know. There are reasons for optimism in some aspects. For example, MRNA vaccines became the year thanks to the rapid progress in research and technology – most of which occurred during pandemic. The capacity of the countries with low and medium income for the vaccine production is now greater than in 2020, although it is still a long way to be independent. The nations have improved their infectious diseases and better understand how to design fast clinical tests for vaccine testing and treatment during the crisis.

But in other aspects, the countries look as badly prepared as on January 30, 2020, when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Coid-19 as a public health in an emergency than an international concern. When it comes to political will and financial support, many have withdrawn from the steps needed to strengthen pandemic responses. Pandemi-19 pandemic politicization has stigmatized authorities and public health guidelines in some countries and increased vaccine hesitation.

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Without a quick action to increased preparation, the earth will again be grabbed in straight feet when the next pandemic strikes. “Science will be delivered if we have a new infectious disease,” says Joanne Liu, a specialist in pediatric emergency medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and a former international president of the Médecins Sans Frontes Medical Assistance Organization (also known as doctors without borders) . “I think it will be people who won’t deliver.”

There is no way to find out where this new infectious disease will occur. AND The potential candidate is the strain of the bird flu h5n1 This is currently breaking through the cattle farms in the United States. Although there is no evidence yet that this strain can be transferred from one person to another, there are signs that the virus becomes better able to infect the mammals (Tp peacock et al. Nature 637304–313; 2025).

This is particularly worrying because the US infrastructure is currently in turmoil. US President Donald Trump posted that Earth will withdraw from WHO. This will take away an organization that acts as a world pandemic coordinator, about fifth funding, along with an approach to expertise from the United States. American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – a certain body of the country for monitoring infectious diseases and notifications of relevant organizations, including WHO, of any outbreaks – is also under pressure. The communication and exchange of data by the organization was mostly stopped after Trump took the post in January. Moreover, healthcare secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr 1,300 CDC employees were discharged the day after sworn on February 13th.

Researchers have broken down Download key public health data Before public databases darkened for a period. On February 11, the Federal Judge ordered the CDC and other US agencies relating to health care to return the data they removed, and the litigation for removal continues. However, the episode encourages concern, including the ability of the researcher to separate the data by gender – something that Trump’s administration opposes.

Globally, despite the early progress, the efforts to strengthen the capital of vaccines since the pandemic also paused. There were investments in the production of vaccines, including that of the MRNA vaccine, in countries in Africa and Asia who lacked production capacity. These plans should be accelerated. Furthermore, pharmaceutical companies must agree to share their technologies during an epidemic of infectious diseases or pandemic so other manufacturers can quickly produce vaccines and medicines at a local level. The WHO Member State has delayed the Global Pandemic Agreement. Such an agreement is required to ensure that data are also divided and that countries with low and medium income have access to vaccines and medicines they need. This contract must be able to prevent repeating some of the most tragic errors of the Pandemia Coid-19. Studies confirmed that people died because vaccines did not arrive on time to offer protection while the virus raged (Oj Watson et al. Lancet infect. Dis. 221293–1302; 2022).

The more time passes, the harder the priority of pandemic preparations will be. The feeling of urgency decreases with each year and there is a strong desire to put a pandemic of a coid-19-and-after-described pandemia behind us as an event once in a century. This does not mean that the world is still 95 years old until the next pandemic; Indeed, in the next 25 years, one study discovered up to a 50% chance of a similar pandemic (see Go.nature.com/4hnmdhw).

After the outbreak of Ebola virus in Western Africa in 2014, Liu and her colleagues ran in pandemic simulations, to sound answers to future crises. But they did not predict how much the world would change, a decade and global pandemic later. “None of us thought about a cases scenario in which we would have leaders and a large part of the population who do not believe in science,” she says.

Still, this scenario is here. This means that researchers of public health and infectious diseases must cooperate closely with social scientists who have studied how to spread another disease – misinformation and how to counteract the best. Public health authorities must learn how to better communicate uncertainty and the creators of politics and the public, so changes in guidelines during the next pandemic do not create distrust. But, ultimately, the first step is to retention of urgency in 2020. Don’t let history be forgotten – or worse, transcribed.