How to end COVID-19 as a public health threat

Science Daily  November 3, 2022
An international team of researchers from 112 countries has recommend specific actions to end the persistent global threat to public health. The panel developed a set of 41 consensus statements and 57 recommendations to governments, health systems, industry, and other key stakeholders across six domains: communication; health systems; vaccination; prevention; treatment and care; and inequities. The highest-ranked recommendations call for the adoption of whole-of-society and whole-of-government approaches, while maintaining proven prevention measures using a vaccines-plus approach that employs a range of public health and financial support measures to complement vaccination. Other recommendations with at least 99% combined agreement advise governments and other stakeholders to improve communication, rebuild public trust and engage communities3 in the management of pandemic responses. The findings of the study, which have been further endorsed by 184 organizations globally, include points of unanimous agreement, as well as six recommendations with >5% disagreement…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE

Delphi panel generation and data collection. Credit: Nature (2022) 

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