Editorial
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003167.
eCollection 2020 May.
Pandemic preparedness and responses: WHO to turn to in a crisis?
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- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003167
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Editorial
Pandemic preparedness and responses: WHO to turn to in a crisis?
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Abstract
The PLOS Medicine editors discuss the role of the World Health Organization in pandemic responses.
Conflict of interest statement
The author's individual competing interests are at http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/s/staff-editors. PLOS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLOS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salaries are not linked to the number of papers published in the journal).
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