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7-1-7: an organising principle, target, and accountability metric to make the world safer from pandemics

2021; Elsevier BV; Volume: 398; Issue: 10300 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01250-2

1474-547X

Thomas R. Frieden, Christopher T. Lee, Aaron F. Bochner, Marine Buissonnière, Amanda McClelland,

Zoonotic diseases and public health

COVID-19 makes it both possible and necessary to review lessons learnt from recent epidemics, re-evaluate approaches, and develop a framework that accelerates progress to make the world safer from epidemics. Every country and every community must be able to rapidly detect, report, and respond effectively to any potential major new health threat. Notably, wide variation in capacities exist across countries.1,2 To improve early detection and rapid control of health threats, clear performance targets need to be set, cross-country variations need to be better quantified, factors responsible for these variations need to be identified, and speed and quality of detection and response need to be improved.