World Economic Forum. Read online: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/omicron-teaches-us-that-global-ch...
- The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the increase in global connectivity and importance of global solutions.
- The development of variants such as Omicron requires nations working together to reduce inequalities.
- The health and economic damage from the global pandemic needs all nations to work collaboratively to restore services...
'Such collaboration should also include sharing of information. For example, one of the reasons the death toll from the Omicron variant was lower than the Delta variant was that scientists in South Africa shared the details of the variant genome promptly, along with subsequent reporting of the clinical characteristics of the affected patients, enabling other countries to develop time-sensitive policies.'
Neil Pakenham-Walsh, HIFA Coordinator, neil@hifa.org www.hifa.org
