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The Pandemic is a Reminder

The Pandemic is a Reminder

"The pandemic is a reminder of the intimate and delicate relationship between people and planet. Any efforts to make our world safer are doomed to fail unless they address the critical interface between people and pathogens, and the existential threat of climate change, that is making our Earth less habitable.”   
-- WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in address to the 73rd World Health Assembly.  May 18th 2020
 
The World Health Organization offers six prescriptions for a Healthy and Green Recovery from COVID-19.  Read them here.
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