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Editorial
. 2020 May 29;17(5):e1003167.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003167. eCollection 2020 May.

Pandemic preparedness and responses: WHO to turn to in a crisis?

PLOS Medicine Editors
Editorial

Pandemic preparedness and responses: WHO to turn to in a crisis?

PLOS Medicine Editors. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

The PLOS Medicine editors discuss the role of the World Health Organization in pandemic responses.

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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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