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WHO chief calls 3-year pandemic 'a chaotic patchwork of responses'

WHO's chief offered three lessons the world must learn to be able to effectively cope with future global health crises.

The World Health Organization's director blamed 'narrow nationalism' for the pandemic's 'lack of cooperation and coordination' (AN/Manuel/Unsplash)

After three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the U.N. health agency said the world must improve primary health care, depoliticize science and strengthen cooperation – or risk repeating fatal mistakes.

"At exactly the moment when the world needed to come together to face this common threat as one, the COVID-19 pandemic has been characterized by a lack of cooperation and coordination," World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday.

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