2022.05.04

Global Health Institutions Reached Their Limits

The need to reinvent the World Health Organization has become abundantly clear

 ITALIAN ARMY nurse helps a COVID patient at a camp hospi- tal in Perugia that was opened to relieve the burden on nearby Santa Maria della Misericordia hospital. In December of 2020, the world continued to struggle with the pandemic’s successive waves. /  Tommaso Ausili/Contrasto/Redux Pictures

ITALIAN ARMY nurse helps a COVID patient at a camp hospi- tal in Perugia that was opened to relieve the burden on nearby Santa Maria della Misericordia hospital. In December of 2020, the world continued to struggle with the pandemic’s successive waves. / Tommaso Ausili/Contrasto/Redux Pictures

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