Pandemic response a cycle of 'panic and neglect,' says World Bank president

devex “We are really not ready” for another pandemic outbreak on the scale of the 2014 Ebola crisis, World Bank President Jim Kim has said, adding that international support for the bank’s new pandemic financing facility has collapsed to just two donors.

Speaking yesterday at the opening session of the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, U.K., Kim said that “what happens every time” in the face of pandemics is a cycle of “panic, neglect, panic, neglect.” (Photo: Global Panorama/Ebola/flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)

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