Pandemic Supply Chain Network

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The Pandemic Supply Chain Network ( English language , roughly translatable as: pandemic supply chain network ) is a public-private cooperation that is intended to provide supply chain and logistics capacities and to improve information flows in order to be prepared in the event of a large-scale emergency be. It is intended to help prevent future pandemics and, if necessary, manage them.

The network was set up in 2017 based on the experience of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 . The founders include the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank . Also involved are: UNICEF , the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs , the World Economic Forum , the US Agency for International Development , the University of Minnesota , GS1 , infection control centers and private companies, including Henry Schein, Inc. , Johnson & Johnson , UPS Foundation, Becton, Dickinson & Co. and the NEC Corporation .

In cooperation between the WFP and the NEC Corporation, it was planned to set up an information platform that will serve to coordinate and control supply chains in the event of an emergency.

In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic , the network is involved in consultations to bring protective equipment ( respiratory masks , protective suits, etc.) to where it is needed. In view of bottlenecks that are hindering the work of the medical staff, some of the companies addressed announced, according to media reports, that they would now only sell breathing masks to medical staff.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Data as reported by 3 February 2020: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report - 14-ERRATUM. In: who.int. February 3, 2020, accessed on March 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Data as reported by 10AM CET02 March 2020. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report - 42. In: who.int. Accessed March 7, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ Helen Branswell: Coronavirus concerns trigger global run on supplies for health workers, causing shortages. In: statnews.com. February 7, 2020, accessed on March 7, 2020 .