Four health organizations, working closely together, spent almost $10 billion on responding to Covid across the world.
But they lacked the scrutiny of governments, and fell short of their own goals, a POLITICO and WELT investigation found.
When Covid-19 struck, the governments of the world weren’t prepared.
From America to Europe to Asia, they veered from minimizing the threat to closing their borders in ill-fated attempts to quell a viral spread that soon enveloped the world.
While the most powerful nations looked inward, four non-governmental global health organizations began making plans for a…