A five-point plan against pandemics
Op-ed by Stefan Oschmann, CEO of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, in "EURACTIV" and “Handelsblatt“ from March 30, 2020
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