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The World Health Network: a global citizens' initiative

The COVID-19 pandemic has cost more than 4 million lives, left millions of people with persistent symptoms (ie, long COVID), and has devastated societies, ..

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thelancet.com/journals/lance…

..with already disadvantaged communities being hit hardest. The tragedy is that much of this harm was preventable,

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..as shown early on by many Asia-Pacific countries that pursued elimination of COVID-19 and protected both their public health and economies. The rest of the world can still work towards elimination.

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The World Health Network (WHN) is a coalition of citizens and experts who are committed to global action to protect public health through progressive elimination of COVID-19.

worldhealthnetwork.global

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