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  • The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed significant weaknesses in global healthcare systems, highlighting the urgent need for better pandemic preparedness.
  • The authors suggest that learning from past failures is essential to reduce future loss of lives and livelihoods.
  • They propose a developmental model for an international integrated database software to enhance coordination and communication among all stakeholders involved in pandemic management.

Article Abstract

Global outbreak of the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID19) has not only challenged the existing healthcare systems but is also a threat to the world economy and stability. In the recent times the world has seen the best healthcare systems collapsing due to the overwhelming burden. Thus, it shows that there have been major lacunae in the pandemic preparedness across the globe. Hence, there is an urgent need to identify the problems, learn from failures and to prepare for future pandemics to reduce the loss of lives and livelihood. In the modern era, blend of public healthcare systems, medical sciences and technology can be put to use to provide solutions. In this article, the authors propose a developmental model of international integrated database software which would connect all the players involved in the management of a pandemic. Better networking and warning system is a key to successful containment of a new viral outbreak.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7815457PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2020.12.037DOI Listing

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