How prepared is the world for the next epidemic? This tool shows most countries are not.

Washington Post  June 21, 2018
AA team of researchers at CDC has developed a tool that spotlights gaps in preparedness, and actions that countries and organizations can take to close them. The new website, PreventEpidemics.org  gives an individual score to each country and uses color codes to rank the world by five levels of preparedness. More than 60 percent of countries, representing nearly 5 billion people, have not volunteered to conduct these epidemic preparedness evaluations, including most of Europe, Russia, China, India and virtually all South America…read more.

PreventEpidemics.org is the first website that gives a score to each country based on their ability to find, stop and prevent epidemics. (PreventEpidemics.org)

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