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Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold
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Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold

CEPS, 2020


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • For Experts
  • Hot Topic

Recommendation

The European Union was woefully unprepared to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, even though alarm bells started ringing in 2003, with the emergence of the SARS coronavirus. In this focused investigation of preparedness failures, policy experts Andrea Renda and Rosa J. Castro glean preliminary lessons for the future governance of public health crises. They recommend that economic policy focus on resilience, and they offer useful criteria for crisis responses that could improve current outcomes as well as those likely to follow.

Take-Aways

  • Since 2005, health experts have advised of the risks of a pandemic.
  • Some lessons are already evident in the effort to reduce the impact of COVID-19.
  • Economic policy should now focus on resilience rather than efficiency.

About the Authors

Andrea Renda is a department director at the Centre for Economic Policy Studies. Rosa J. Castro is a policy officer at the Federation of the European Academies of Medicine.


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