Towards a Definition of a Pandemic in WHO's Pandemic Accord

Newsletter Edition #171 [The Curated Primer]

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Today we bring you a guest contribution on a potential definition of a pandemic.

As countries negotiate a new Pandemic Accord at WHO, arriving at a definition of a pandemic will be one of the first tasks confronting them. The challenge, as the authors point out, is to arrive a negotiated definition, one that will adequately capture the multidimension…