Business Continuity and the Pandemic Threat - Learning from COVID-19 while preparing for the next pandemic

CHAPTER 19: SUMMARY

With the WHO endeavouring to locate the origin of coronavirus, along with the identity of ‘patient zero’, that search has initially focused on Wuhan. Its results and conclusions, unsatisfactory as they may have been considered by some, were published in March 2021 (WHO, 2021). In fact, I believe it fair to say that the results of the WHO convened Global study of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 were inconclusive. Conversely, those calls for formal reviews of what the world did well, and what it did badly in responding to the crisis are somewhat premature. As the end of 2021 approached, in terms of the pandemic’s duration, we have not even reached ‘half-time’ yet. Moreover, all the time we continue to wrestle with COVID-19, it would ...