By C. Alessandro Mauceri –
The news almost undertone: a new crown virus could possibly convey from bat to humans because he uses the same human receptor of the virus that causes Covid-19. To give the news, the Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli of the Guangzhou laboratory together with researchers from the Guangzhou Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University and Wuhan Institute of Virology. The new virus of the Kroon-Virus HKU5 group was first identified in a bat in Hong Kong. The analyzes revealed that the virus, once isolated from bats with bats, could also infect human cells and masses of cells or artificially cultivated tissues that looked like Geminiaturized respiratory or intestinal organs. In practice a new Covid.
The discovery reopened the discussion about a question that has never been resolved: what did governments learned from the pandemic that learned everything from 2020 to 2022? Would governments be ready to face a new pandemic? Experts agree that the countries of the world have learned nothing from the past. The negotiations on the measures to be taken as ready in the case of Pandemie were miserable in 2024. The measures taken at the level of individual states also seem insufficient.
In Italy, in January 2025, the Ministry of Health presented a document entitled “Strategic operational plan for preparation and response to a patgemic of pathogens to respiratory transfer with a larger pandemic potential“, Who must be” active “for the period 2024-2028.
Presented as a significant step (it is the first to be extended to all breathing pathogens, which marks a substantial evolution compared to the previous one that is mainly focused on the prevention of pandemic influence), however, seems to be missing in the most important part: the practical realization. The national pandemic risk communication plan is slightly better; For the most part it is limited to the theme of information. Intra -countries (also many “developed” countries) The situation is even worse.
But already in 2022, exactly at the end of the Pandemic emergency, the WHO had started negotiations on a new agreement on the pandemies that could be the basis for international cooperation in the case of events such as the COVID-19 Pandemie. Subsequently, two years after the start of the works, it was noted that the conversations did not lead to a concrete result, the initial deadline for the World Health Assembly was May 2024. Indeed, it seems that during the meetings the levels of trust between the deteriorated countries deteriorated, such as Dr. Clare Wenham of the Department of Health Policy of the LSE admitted.
At European level in 2023, the special Commission of the European Parliament on COVID-19 Pandemics (COVI) had made specific recommendations to fill in some gaps in this sense. In July 2023, the European Parliament had analyzed and approved this document, but not as clear as one had thought with a majority: 385 votes for, 193 against and 63 abstentions. The point is that this text included a route map that is divided into four sectors: health, democracy and fundamental rights, social and economic aspects and global response to pandemic. For this reason, various members of the EU had asked the EU authorities to use the available financial resources, in the hope that the international treaty of pandemia could guarantee coordination at an even broader level: on a global scale.
The core of the issue is exactly this: the money. Even before the 2020 pandemic, studies were carried out, defined programs and indicated guidelines to prevent or intervene effectively in the case of pandemies. The facts showed that the approved measures were not effective or were not implemented as required by the plans. According to the data released by the WHO, the World Health Organization, from December 2019 to today, more than 760 million cases were registered and 6.9 million deaths all over the world, “but it is believed that the real number is higher”. The United Nations speak of nearly 15 million deaths Between 2020 and 2021 because of COVID-19.
The figures regarding the global BIG5 turnover of the BIG5 cases have no less impressive, which multimiliarding gathered gathered thanks to the sale of more than 13 billion doses managed vaccin (WHO data).
As confirmed by the discovery of a new crown virus in China, new health threats often arise. As early as 2024, health world leaders had spoken about a risk of MPOX epidemic in Africa. At the end of last year, some specialists discovered a potential outbreak of an unknown disease in a remote area of the Democratic Republic of Congo and other diseases worsened by acute malnutrition.
Maria van Kerkhove, director of the preparation and prevention sector of epidemics and pandemies at the World Health Organization, said that she was also concerned about the situation of Aviaire influence: the virus did not spread from human to man, but in the past year there was an impression of human infections.
The international monitoring system seems to be consolidated, although aimed at the flu, but other sectors are not the same.
Covid-19 Pandemic has left health systems from all over the world “real wiggle”. But even though it is followed by a long list of other health crises, the response of the governments does not seem sufficient. “The seasonal flu began to circulate, we had a mpox situation, we had the Marburg, we had the cholera, we had earthquakes, we had floods, measles, diphtheria, oropouche. Health care systems really admit to many of his pts. “Kerkhove added:” The world does not want to say that the next crisis is struggling. Of the media and governments are all focused on how you can spend more on weapons or on the next shooting of the new Star and Stripes President.
And for the preparation for the next pandemic? Yes, because the point is not “like” there, but “when” this will happen. Yet the world seems to live in a state of abandonment. People forget how expensive and painful pandemic has been in terms of human lives. “Also for economies,” said the Minister of Health of Rwanda, Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana, co-president of the board of directors of the Pandemias Fund, founded in November 2022 as a financing mechanism to help the poorest countries prepare for emerging pandemic threats.
Because the emergency situation of Covid ended, too many political leaders have their attention and resources on other challenges. And after the Pandemie of 2020/22, the world does not seem to have learned what it means to be ready.
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