Lancet Commission Report: 6 Reasons COVID Response ‘A Massive Global Failure’

• Lancet Commission Report: 6 Reasons COVID Response ‘A Massive Global Failure’
  by Dr. Yuhong Dong and Health 1+1, https://www.theepochtimes.com/
  The Lancet COVID-19 Commission published an article on Sept. 14, 2022 about the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. As of May 31, 2022, 6.9 million deaths from COVID-19 were reported, but the estimated excess death toll is 17.2 million, based on data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. The report states that “this staggering death toll is both a profound tragedy and a massive global failure at multiple levels.”
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  The Commission identified six major areas of failures, namely failures of prevention, failures of rationality, failures of transparency, failures to follow normal public health practice, failures of operational cooperation, and failures of international solidarity. Due to these failures, social sustainability goals were set back a few years and 17.2 million lives were lost.
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  What can we learn from these failures? I’d like to share my thoughts based on the six failure reasons raised by Lancet.
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  First Lesson Learned: Failure of Prevention
  Many countries adopted aggressive methods to stop the spread of the virus, such as social distancing, lockdowns, vaccines, etc. But none of the methods hit the nail in the head, so to speak. A SARS-CoV-2 human challenge experiment was done among young adults by researchers in the UK. Their paper was published in the March 2022 issue of Nature.
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