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The 2019-2020 coronavirus identification and subsequent pandemic will be evaluated for years to come. Novel strains will continue to present. What can we request of our world health leadership? 

By requesting that thing we do in pandemic preparedness: real time review of lessons learned, before the next novel strain cluster appears:

    ⦾ What international rules, laws and consequences have been set around genome sequencing and upload to the World Health Organization?

    ⦾ What pathways can scientists take to bypass government bureaucracy for countries that seek to control medical transparency? 

    ⦾ What is the fail-safe system for uploads into systems that make takes days before review, such as upload to the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). What is the globally available written process so that scientists do not rely on community networks alone?

    ⦾ What has been done to change the WHO definition of a pandemic? This one was defined too late, and I was waiting for weeks for the formal disclosure. Reference here.

    ⦾ The continued conversations around respiratory pandemics presenting every "hundred or so" years is inappropriate in today's fast-paced, global world. 

            * With a world intent on quick and efficient global business, what is the medical community doing to keep up? Credentials and labor regulation, pharmaceuticals, reimbursement and access and laboratories remain archaically isolated by country compared to the global business world we live in.

            * What is being demanded of food and consumer safety for countries receptive and insistent on global business?

    ⦾ Where is the documentation of tabletop lessons learned? It should include a time line review for components that could have been identified, planned, expedited? Reference here. 


A real time review of lessons learned, and subsequent policy, should not wait. 

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