Covid-19: Don’t let economic crisis distract from preparing for a future pandemic, conference hears

Most countries haven’t learnt all the lessons of the covid pandemic and need to take further measures to ensure their health systems are resilient enough in the event of another pandemic, a conference on healthcare and innovation has been told.The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) in Doha, Qatar, brought together health ministers and leaders from 136 countries to discuss key issues with global effects, including health systems resilience and pandemic preparedness.In a keynote discussion Sarah Gilbert, who led the Oxford University and AstraZeneca team in developing a vaccine for covid-19, said she believed that in the future it would be possible to develop and scale up a vaccine for another pandemic in less than a year, now that the technology was in place as a result of covid-19. She said that the 26 vaccine production facilities around the world should be manufacturing covid and other vaccines for their local…
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