Report outlines 8 steps for current, future pandemics

A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) comments on the 'ineffectual and fragmented' US COVID-19 pandemic responses thus far and recommends eight steps to manage the ongoing crisis amid variant fatigue, inflation, and supply chain disruptions. CSIS, a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization based in Washington, DC, said it issued the recommendations to secure US global leadership in the next phase of the pandemic response. Among the steps recommended in the '2022 is the year of decision' report are to launch a US international pandemic readiness project and to appoint a presidential global health security envoy.