The argument could be made that this is the first pandemic that the world failed in decades. MERS, SARS, Ebola, etc, are all examples of pandemics we did not se

The argument could be made that this is the first pandemic that the world failed in decades. MERS, SARS, Ebola, etc, are all examples of pandemics we did not see because the groundwork, learnings and operational cooperation was already in place. It is obvious that this was not the case - this time.