Coronavirus: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 22:32:35 PDT 2022


Is Your Government Ready For Another Pandemic?

https://www.statista.com/chart/27891/confirmed-monkeypox-cases-per-one-million-residents-per-country/
https://www.vox.com/2016/5/31/11638796/why-there-are-more-infectious-disease-outbreaks
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02167-z
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/global-rise-vaccine-preventable-diseases-highlights-urgent-actions-needed-save-lives
https://www.statista.com/topics/5994/the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-outbreak/
https://www.statista.com/chart/28022/oecd-survey-on-governments-preparedness-for-future-pandemics/
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/b407f99c-en/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/b407f99c-en


With polio now confirmed in New York City's wastewater and monkeypox
having spread around the world - albeit with mortality rates remaining
low - it appears that disease outbreaks are happening faster and more
frequently than before.

While greater media attention has certainly heightened awareness,
we’re also seeing the ripple effects of a number of factors including
population growth, which means more people are living in closer
proximity to potentially infected animals, climate change, which is
making diseases more severe, and even the decline of vaccine coverage
for other diseases over past years, as reported by the OCHA. Not to
mention the fact increased trade and travel as well as rapid
urbanization - where levels of contact between people is high and
living conditions can be unhygenic - are also making transmission
easier.

But how ready are the world’s governments for another - unfortunately,
fairly inevitable - health crisis?

As Statista's Anna Fleck details below, a survey carried out by the
OECD in 2021 found that perceptions of government preparedness vary
greatly around the world, with a fairly even split of opinions,
favoring slightly more positive. People living in Luxembourg and
Ireland, for instance, thought more highly of their government’s
healthcare strategies, with 69 percent and 60 percent, respectively,
saying they thought their leaders would be ready. Just over half of
Brits felt the same.

In Austria, however, trust on the topic was fairly low, with 29
percent of people saying they thought their government would be ready.
Japan came in with 32 percent feeling confident in the government,
although a greater share than any other felt ambivalent about the
issue - responding that they felt either ‘neutral’ or ‘didn’t know.’

Infographic: Is Your Government Ready for Another Pandemic? | Statista

You will find more infographics at Statista

According to the report, public trust in government rise and fell
throughout the pandemic, with a show of support for governments at the
start, versus later when the death count started to rise. The authors
note that the survey’s results likely correspond to the intensity of
the pandemic at the time, in November 2021. They add:

    “It is also worth noting that – in spite of the many challenges
governments faced in effectively responding to the economic and health
exigencies of the pandemic – this finding suggests that people see
governments as having learned from the information gained during this
experience.”

The countries surveyed included Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada,
Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Japan,
Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom.


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