Las pandemias, concluyeron los autores, son una amenaza existencial del orden de un arma qu\u00edmica o nuclear, y prepararse para ellas debe ser responsabilidad de los m\u00e1s altos niveles de liderazgo pol\u00edtico y no solo de los departamentos de salud .\u00a0La pr\u00f3xima vez que el mundo se enfrente a un brote de un nuevo pat\u00f3geno mortal y de r\u00e1pida propagaci\u00f3n, los gobiernos deben actuar con rapidez y estar preparados para restringir los viajes o exigir m\u00e1scaras incluso antes de que alguien sepa el alcance de la amenaza, seg\u00fan un par de nuevos informes entregados a la Organizaci\u00f3n Mundial de la Salud.<\/p>\n
The next time the world faces an outbreak of a fast-spreading and deadly new pathogen, governments must act swiftly and be ready to restrict travel or mandate masks even before anyone knows the extent of the threat, according to a pair of new reports delivered to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n
The studies are intended to address missteps over the past year that led to more than 3.25 million deaths, some $10 trillion in economic losses and more than 100 million people pushed into extreme poverty.<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrent institutions, public and private, failed to protect people from a devastating pandemic,\u201d concluded one of the reports, released on Wednesday<\/a>, which called the Covid-19 pandemic \u201cthe 21st century\u2019s Chernobyl moment.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWithout change,\u201d it said, these institutions \u201cwill not prevent a future one.\u201d<\/p>\n The reviews, released in advance of this month\u2019s meeting of the W.H.O.\u2019s governing assembly, were written by appointees who donated countless hours in the midst of their own countries\u2019 pandemic fights to interview hundreds of experts, comb through thousands of documents, gather data and seek counsel from public and private institutions around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n