[Comment] Offline: “People have died”

The World Health Summit has proved itself the premier global health event of the year. Under the banner “Taking responsibility for health in a fragmenting world”—symbolised by a giant stage globe cracking during a flamboyant evening “signature event”—summiteers, despite facing their biggest financing catastrophe for a generation, were remarkably upbeat. Perhaps they were all in denial. Or enjoying euphoric freedom from American hegemony. The star political guest was Germany's Federal Minister of Health, Nina Warken.