Are we facing crisis upon crisis? Cooperation is more than ever a must to face the challenges of today and tomorrow

Abstract

The years 2020 and 2021 will, without doubt, be remembered as corona virus years, but also as the years that everything changed. Today we think that we conquered the coronavirus, but isn’t it more realistic to believe that we have partial control over the virus through the vaccination process? Notwithstanding the vaccination, on the 4th of October 2022 amounted worldwide the number of new cases in the last 24 hours still 200,000, and new variants, some of them more lethal, appear around the corner. What is true is that in a relatively short period the medical and pharmaceutical sector was able to develop adequate vaccines to heal the infected people and to control the spreading of the disease, and this in sharp contrast with the combat of the Spanish flu in 1918...