Preparedness, Policy And Patients – Learning From The Pandemic

10 Lessons COVID-19 Can Teach Us About Managing The Threat Of Infectious Diseases

The COVID-19 pandemic is serving as a catalyst to draw attention to other destructive infectious diseases that continue to ravage communities across the world. This is to be welcomed, but we must also ask what we have learnt from our recent experiences that can be deployed to help accelerate approaches to fighting other, similarly devastating, established and emerging infectious diseases.

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Notwithstanding COVID-19, existing infectious diseases wreak significant health, social and economic havoc across the world each year (see Exhibit 1).

According to a recent analysis by the National Bureau of Economic Research, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria cause millions of deaths...

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