Europe invested billions for the next pandemic. It is coordination what lags, expert says

EU PERSPECTIVES - Europe invested more than €1.8bn in pandemic preparedness research after 2020. Yet when Covid-19 struck, clinical trials fragmented, infrastructures operated in parallel, and promising discoveries failed to translate into deployable countermeasures. The problem was not scientific capacity, says Hervé Raoul, coordinator of the initiative designed to fix it. It was coordination. Read more

Dr. Hervé Raoul, Coordinator, BE READY European Partnership launch ceremony, 17 February, 2027 Photo/ Laurent Ardhuin