Coronapod: Fixing the world’s pandemic alarm
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
A year ago the WHO’s coronavirus emergency alarm was largely ignored. Why?
On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a ‘public health emergency of international concern’, or PHEIC, to raise the alarm of the imminent threat of a global coronavirus pandemic.
Alongside the PHEIC, the WHO made a number of recommendations to curb the spread of the virus. But many of these were ignored by governments around the world.
In this episode of Coronapod, we explore why this emergency warning system failed, and hear about efforts to reform it, and the WHO, to avoid this happening again.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. My name is Jamie Lang and I'm the host of Great Company podcast and today we are |
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| 0:44.4 | This year, we've had a record 150,000 children homeless in England. We'll be waking up |
| 0:50.9 | homeless on Christmas morning, in cramped rooms, with nowhere to play, |
| 0:55.3 | and sometimes even having to share bathrooms with strangers. |
| 1:00.0 | This is not a home. |
| 1:02.4 | This is the heartbreaking reality, but it doesn't have to be this way. |
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| 1:17.8 | Welcome to CoronaPod. |
| 1:24.5 | In this show, we're going to bring you nature's take on the latest COVID-19 developments. |
| 1:29.6 | And we'll be speaking to experts around the world about research during the pandemic. |
| 1:35.1 | We're entering a new era now. We have new COVID strategies. |
| 1:38.2 | There's some new unknowns and we've got a vaccine. |
| 1:48.3 | Hi listeners, Benjamin here, coming to you once again from the South London basement. |
| 1:55.2 | Welcome to Corona Pot. It feels to us like the pandemic has shifted once again into a new phase. |
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