The World Has a Plan to Fight Coronavirus. Most Countries Are Not Using it.
For weeks, the World Health Organization resisted declaring the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, fearing that doing so would incite panic across the globe.But facing the cameras on Wednesday, the agency's director general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, did just that, asking for global unity to "change the course of this pandemic."It was a symbolic moment that underscored the standing of the WHO as the world's leading public health agency. But it also reflected the WHO's underlying weakness as
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