2nd Global White House COVID-19 Summit

The world continues to grapple with the far-reaching impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The emergence and spread of COVID-19 variants, like Omicron, have made it clear that our strategy for controlling COVID-19 must continue to evolve. It also highlights the need for the world to tailor our global strategy and make additional commitments to end the pandemic’s acute phase, sustainably control COVID-19, and build better health security for the future.

We can mitigate COVID’s impact and protect those at the highest risk with vaccinations, access to prompt diagnosis and treatment, actions to protect the health workforce and minimize disruption to routine and essential health services, and through support for the ACT-Accelerator multilateral mechanism. We also know the risk of pandemics and other health emergencies is high, and we must prepare – now – to build, sustain, and finance the global capacity we need, not only for emerging COVID-19 variants, but also future health crises. To help achieve these goals, we urge all countries and stakeholders to pledge to take urgent actions to create the systems we need to end the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, save lives, and build better health security.

Significant financing and policy commitments are needed in order to achieve our collective goals to vaccinate the world, save lives now, and build better health security. These will build on the commitments made during and subsequent to the first Summit and will be critical to addressing the evolving challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.