Covid-19 pandemic is ‘massive societal failure at multiple levels’, new report finds

The global response to the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic was a widespread failure that resulted in an estimated 17.7 million deaths, according to a Lancet Commission. It found that most national governments were unprepared and too slow in their response, paid too little attention to the most vulnerable groups in their societies, and were hampered by a lack of international cooperation and an epidemic of misinformation. The expert authors of the report are now calling for improved multilateral cooperation to end pandemics and effectively manage future global health threats. This includes a reformed and bolstered World Health