The Epidemic Failure Cycle hypothesis: Towards understanding the global community’s recent failures in responding to an epidemic

Background: Within a few years, the global community has failed twice in responding to large viral infection outbreaks: the Ebola epidemic in 2014 and the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic in 2020. There is, however, no systematic approach or research available that analyses the repeated failures with regard to a...

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Main Authors: Dirk Richter, Simeon Zuercher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-11-01
Series:Journal of Infection and Public Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876034121002549