On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the emerging COVID-19 threat a pandemic following the global spread of the virus. A year later, a number of governments are being handed the concluding reports of national public inquiries tasked with investigating responses, mishaps, and identifying lessons for the future. The present article aims to identify a set of learning obstacles that may hinder effective lessons drawing from the COVID-19 pandemic responses. The seven obstacles discussed in this article are: (1) retaining lessons and implementing them effectively, (2) effectively drawing lessons from other countries, (3) the potential for reforms to introduce unanticipated vulnerabilities elsewhere in the system, (4) political pressure, (5) drawing the conclusions from observations, (6) experts versus decision makers, and (7) reforms may not be related to the actual crisis. Exploring these obstacles will be central to future discussions concerning which kinds of responses will set precedent for future pandemics and global health crises.

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从 COVID-19 大流行中吸取教训：危机后从公众调查中学习的七个障碍

2020 年 3 月 11 日，随着病毒在全球传播，世界卫生组织宣布新出现的 COVID-19 威胁为大流行病。一年后，一些政府收到了国家公共调查的结论性报告，其任务是调查回应、事故并确定未来的经验教训。本文旨在确定可能阻碍从 COVID-19 大流行应对措施中吸取有效经验的一系列学习障碍。本文讨论的七个障碍是：(1) 保留经验并有效实施；(2) 有效吸取其他国家的经验；(3) 改革可能会在系统其他地方引入意料之外的脆弱性；(4) 政治压力, (5) 从观察中得出结论, (6) 专家与决策者, (7) 改革可能与实际危机无关。探索这些障碍将成为未来讨论哪些应对措施将为未来流行病和全球健康危机开创先例的核心。