WHO - Europe region conference participants not wear masks in an airborne infectious disease pandemic - what message does this send? - June 15, 2023

[sharon sanders]

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A new era for respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness
@WHO’s #PRET (preparedness & resilience for emerging threats) Initiative helps countries better prepare for future epidemics & pandemics building on lessons learned from the #COVID19 #pandemic #WHEBalkanHub


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public health officials from the #WesternBalkans & met in #Istanbul on the #WHO European Region's first workshop - financially supported by to roll out #PRET & strengthen pandemic preparedness https://who.int/europe/news-room/events/item/2023/06/14/default-calendar/a-new-era-for-respiratory-pathogen-pandemic-preparedness----who-sub-regional-workshop-for-the-western-balkans



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[sharon sanders]

This is bad messaging. How does the WHO expect anyone, anywhere, to take COVID-19 seriously?

Not only is no one wearing a mask but it looks like there was a meal indoors and then a group photo where everyone is close together.

Doesn't anyone at WHO read the studies on the effect of COVID-19 on the brain? Or they have had COVID a few times and this meeting format is the result?

Honestly.....


The haunting brain science of long Covid link

Sci Adv . SARS-CoV-2 infection and viral fusogens cause neuronal and glial fusion that compromises neuronal activity

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . Brain imaging and neuropsychological assessment of individuals recovered from a mild to moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection​

Am J Neurodegener Dis . Neurological manifestation in COVID-19 disease with neuroimaging studies​

Clin Neurophysiol . Deficient GABABergic and glutamatergic excitability in the motor cortex of patients with long-COVID and cognitive impairment​

Brain . Neurologic sequelae of COVID-19 are determined by immunologic imprinting from previous coronaviruses​

and many more.... link

I know the governments need everyone back at work and school but the proper way to send the message is to show how it can be done with a few protections in place. Masks is one method. The other would be food served outdoors. And of course, no large group photo that forces people to bunch together.

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[sharon sanders]

So ironic that it was a conference on pandemic respiratory pathogens preparedness...you can't make this up.....



"A new era for respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness" – WHO Sub-regional Workshop for the Western Balkans

14 – 16 June 2023

Istanbul, Türkiye Pandemics caused by respiratory pathogens are recurring events that pose a major global health threat due to their unpredictability and their potentially devastating impact on health, societies and economies. The COVID-19 pandemic calls for renewed emphasis on pandemic preparedness, building on the challenges faced and the lessons identified during the pandemic.

In April 2022, WHO issued a policy brief on pandemic preparedness planning for respiratory pathogens, encouraging all countries, territories and areas to review their response to COVID-19 and to update pandemic preparedness plans with a focus on multiple respiratory pathogens. The recently published “Preparedness and resilience for emerging threats module 1: planning for respiratory pathogen pandemics” provides further guidance in this area.

Most health systems have shifted from an acute pandemic response mode to longer-term management of COVID-19, alongside other respiratory pathogens, and have worked to identify strengths and gaps in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, it is considered timely to conduct a workshop for the western Balkans to collectively address the transition from lessons identified from the COVID-19 response to improved pandemic preparedness, including updated pandemic preparedness plans.

The objectives of the workshops are to:

• provide an opportunity for representatives from the western Balkans and Republic of Moldova to share lessons identified from the COVID-19 pandemic and to discuss how these can be translated into improved pandemic preparedness;
• explore how countries, territories and areas are approaching pandemic preparedness planning post-COVID-19 based on priorities identified from COVID-19 reviews;
• introduce the WHO “Preparedness and resilience for emerging threats module 1: planning for respiratory pathogen pandemics” and related resources (e.g. checklist and exercise material);
• support local public health authorities to outline key components of national or equivalent respiratory pandemic preparedness plans including timelines for plan development;
• identify support required for pandemic preparedness plan development.

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https://www.who.int/europe/news-roo...sub-regional-workshop-for-the-western-balkans