The Fight Over the Next Pandemic

At the height of the Covid pandemic, nearly 200 countries started
negotiating a plan to ensure they would do better when the next
pandemic inevitably arrived. Their deadline for that plan was
last week.


Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter for The
Times, explains why, so far, the negotiations have failed.


Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter
for The New York Times.


Background reading: 


Countries failed to agree on a treaty to prepare the world
for the next pandemic before a major international meeting.



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