“When My Information Changes, I Alter My Conclusions.” What Can We Learn From the Failures to Adaptively Respond to the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and the Under Preparedness of Health Systems to Manage COVID-19?

• Elisabeth Paul,
• Garrett W. Brown,
• Andreas Kalk,
• Wim Van Damme,
• Valéry Ridde,
• Joachim Sturmberg

Affiliations

Elisabeth Paul

School of Public Health, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Garrett W. Brown

Global Health Theme, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Andreas Kalk

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Kinshasa Country Office, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wim Van Damme

Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Valéry Ridde

CEPED, Institute for Research on Sustainable Development (IRD), IRD-Université de Paris, Paris, France

Joachim Sturmberg

School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW, Australia