Morning Briefing

A new report from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) "has concluded that the major obstacle to eradication is not political or scientific or monetary, but something seemingly mundane -- bad management," health reporter Andre Picard writes in his Globe and Mail column, adding that "the panel offers concrete proposals for what needs to be done to close the deal." He continues, "The fundamental problem though, according to the expert panel, is that the global eradication effort is overeager to celebrate the successes (like India) and ignore the failures (like Pakistan)."