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2 The Case for Investing in Pandemic Preparedness
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... There are also very few risks that have greater would address the most urgent weaknesses in global potential for catastrophic economic impact -- potentially health security. In addition to shoring up our defenses on the scale of a global financial crisis -- but the measures against pandemics, this investment would also yield we are taking to avoid another financial crisis are of an enormous benefits in protecting the world against other entirely different magnitude.1 health risks, such as antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
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... ever-increasing global population, greater consumption Indeed, the economic impact of infectious diseases of meat, and continuing increases in mobility and con- appears to be increasing as greater human and economic nectivity, the conditions for infectious disease emergence connectedness -- whether through transnational supply and contagion are more dangerous than ever. $4.5 billion chains, increased travel, or ubiquitous access to commuannually equates to just 65 cents per person; with such a nication technologies and media -- fuel contagion, both modest investment, we could better protect everyone in of the virus itself and of fear.
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... The influenza pandemics Given the degree of uncertainty in this arena, it also of 1958 and 1968, while far less deadly than the one in makes sense to think about the relative costs of error -- of 1918–1919, are estimated to have cost 3.1 percent and investing too much or investing too little. If we overin0.7 percent of global GDP, respectively (McKibbin and vest, we will have upgraded primary health care and pubSidorenko, 2006)
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... ticipate in highly structured and well-resourced international alliances, such as the North Atlantic Treaty Orga- Recommendation A.2: Committing and mobilizing nization (NATO) ; and most countries regularly conduct the incremental financial resources required to impleexercises to test preparedness and response.
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... 2015. Global health security: the wider default/files/en/media/unaids/contentassets/documents/fact lessons from the West African Ebola virus disease epidemic.
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