The World Health Organization (WHO) has accepted April 12 flaws in the management of pandemic influenza A (H1N1). Dr Keiji Fukuda, Special Advisor on the pandemic to the WHO director general, was interviewed by a committee of experts to assess how the organization handled the pandemic. "The reality is that there is a huge amount of uncertainties in [a pandemic]. I think we have not heard about these uncertainties. This was interpreted by many as a non-transparent process, "he said.
Dr. Fukuda also described as "ruthless" and "very high expectations for immediate information" of people around the world, while the virus was spreading rapidly across borders and as blogs and other new media were broadcasting speculation and criticism. He also described "the confusion on stage and level of severity," referring to the WHO scale of six levels for pandemic flu which takes into account the geographic spread of the virus but not its severity.
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