Applying the Covid-19 blueprint to cholera

We have the tools we need to defeat cholera, but we must still do the research that is required to identify how, when, and where to use them.

Since Covid-19 engulfed the world two years ago, “unprecedented” has become something of a buzzword. But while the coronavirus has posed unique challenges at a time of deep global interconnectedness, pandemics are nothing new. The Covid-19 pandemic is not even the only one we are currently experiencing. In much of the developing world, cholera outbreaks are proliferating.