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THE NEED FOR A EUROPE-WIDE PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITY
Submitted by christian on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 18:07
Source: Joan Costa-Font is associate professor (reader) in the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics.
A key lesson from the COVIS-19 crisis should be that the collaboration and collective action required in Europe to meet these challenges cannot be achieved without transferring powers to a European public-health authority.
To defeat an epidemic, people need to trust scientific experts, citizens need to trust public authorities and countries need to trust each other.
