National pandemic plan: what it is and how it can prepare us for the next emergency

National pandemic plan: what it is and how it can prepare us for the next emergency

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It is called PanFlu 2021-2023 and as you can guess from the name it is a strategic plan for preparing and responding to an influenza pandemic which was prepared on the basis of the recommendations of the World Health Organization and draws its foundation from the 2020 National Prevention Plan -2025 and by the National Vaccine Prevention Plan of January 2017.

But in these days of controversy over the so-called ‘Covid investigations’ in which the former health ministers Roberto Speranza, Giulia Grillo and Beatrice Lorenzin are being investigated for omission of official documents, the question is: “Do we have a pandemic plan that allows us – in the event of the arrival of a new pathogen X – to be ready to react?”.

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