The One Health Lancet Commission is formed

On May 9-10, 2019 the One Health Lancet Commission (OHLC) is formed in Oslo, ” the importance of a One Health approach, [is] simply because pandemics are more than 75% likely to stem from animal disease’. A year later they release their official report. [1, 2, 3, 4]  [The other 25% lab origin???]

The commission comes just in time, as the COVID-19 pandemic propelled One Health into “importance“! [5, 6]  The zoonotic origin story was pushed early by OHLC member Peter Daszak et al, claiming the lab leak hypothesis as a “consipracy theory“, which turned out to be the most plausable origin.

Australia’s OHLC representative Dr Anna Okello said in 2019 that ‘someone can hop on plane and travel across the world quicker than the incubation period of a virus. Health security is everyone’s problem.’