The Influenza Imperative: An Urgent Need to Leverage Lessons from COVID-19 to Prepare for a Global Response to Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza - National Academy of Medicine - ISS-G20 Laboratorium Repository

Since December 2019, much of the world’s focus has been on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as it emerged from Wuhan, China and rapidly spread across the world. As of this writing, there were over 570 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, and more than 6 million people have lost their lives to the disease (WHO, n.d.). Infectious disease detection, treatment, prevention, and control are at the forefront of many people’s minds in 2022. However, concern over the continuing pandemic response and future preparedness has historically waned between pandemics and other major infectious disease outbreaks, resulting in inconsistent and inadequate efforts needed to ensure sufficient levels of pandemic preparedness (Johnson, 2014). The world cannot repeat this historical pattern—we must use the lessons learned from this pandemic to propel and sustain preparedness efforts moving forward, with an emphasis on addressing some of the most glaring gaps that inhibited the COVID-19 response.

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