Pandemic preparedness starts long before a crisis. At today’s High-Level Meeting on #PPPR#, 🇪🇪 stressed the importance of strong health systems, effective surveillance and a skilled workforce. Equality and solidarity must remain at the heart of our collective efforts.

A pandemic declaration can stall. The infrastructure behind it can endure. Yesterday, the United States opposed a UN pandemic preparedness declaration as the meeting ended without consensus. A month earlier, I published Endless Pandemics as a Failed Global Governance Model, examining a deeper question: Who holds the institutions of pandemic governance accountable—and what ensures emergency powers actually end? The paper traces the overlapping roles of international agencies, private funding, surveillance networks, and emergency law—and explains why withdrawing from one institution does not automatically unwind the wider system. This week’s diplomatic rupture makes those questions more urgent. Preparedness needs accountability. Emergency powers need enforceable limits. Public health needs room for public scrutiny. Read the paper: The latest development:

Hantavirus pandemic in 2026? 6% -> 32% because of one headline saying the virus is already killing people Covid broke public risk perception. People are way too sensitive to headlines like this now, but a dangerous virus doesn’t automatically mean pandemic Deadly local outbreaks happen all the time and most of them never go anywhere because they just don’t spread like that. Hantaviruses were described in 1978 and people still get infected sometimes anyway wash your hands

This pandemic is far from over––and our medical professionals continue to put their lives on the line to keep our country going. @JoeBiden and I had a chance to thank Dr. @Craig_A_Spencer for his work during the Ebola crisis and this current pandemic.

The pandemic has dealt a heavy blow to China’s small firms — a significant employer in the world’s second-biggest economy — which have been slammed by government-imposed lockdowns