Abstract
AbstractChapter 3, ‘A Global Emergency’, analyses the global emergency posed by COVID-19, situating it within existing international law for regulating global public health emergencies. In particular, this chapter discusses the International Health Regulations (IHR) and the revisions made to them in 2005. Chapter 3 also reviews lessons learned from past public health emergencies, including the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, which was the first test of the revised IHR (2005), the 2014–16 Ebola crisis in West Africa, debates over the IHR that have emerged during COVID-19, and proposals for a new pandemic treaty. Chapter 3 identifies the importance of data in measuring the scale and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the challenges in accurately measuring the number of COVID-related deaths. It also considers the importance of civil registration and vital statistics for recording deaths, as well as the need for data to be disaggregated to enable identification of the pandemic’s impact on different groups.
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