{"id":74815,"date":"2021-05-27T13:34:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=74815"},"modified":"2021-05-27T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:34:34","slug":"who-dir-denounces-scandalous-vaccine-inequity-warns-the-pandemic-is-not-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/blog\/2021\/05\/27\/who-dir-denounces-scandalous-vaccine-inequity-warns-the-pandemic-is-not-over\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Dir. Denounces \u00abScandalous\u00bb Vaccine Inequity, Warns the Pandemic Is Not Over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WHO Director Denounces \u00abScandalous\u00bb Vaccine Inequity, Warns the Pandemic Is Not Ove<\/strong>r<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 25 (EIRNS)–Addressing the 74th annual meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), on May 24, World Health Organization director, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, delivered a stark message. \u00abMake no mistake,\u00bb he said. \u00abThis will not be the last time the world faces the threat of a pandemic. It\u2019s an evolutionary certainty that there will be another virus with the potential to be more transmittable and more deadly than this one..\u00bb Even though global COVID-19 cases have been decreasing for three consecutive weeks, he warned, the world is still in \u00aba fragile situation\u2026. No country is out of the woods. We must be very clear: the pandemic is not over and it will not be over until and unless transmission is controlled in every last country.\u00bb\u00a0

In this context, Dr. Tedros denounced the \u00abscandalous\u00bb inequity in vaccine distribution, which, he charged, \u00abis perpetuating the pandemic.\u00bb He pointed out that 75% of all the vaccines that have been administered were in only ten wealthy countries. There is \u00abno diplomatic way to say it: a small group of countries that make and buy the majority of the world\u2019s vaccines, control the fate of the rest of the world.\u00bb Now, he admonished, it is incumbent on wealthier countries to share their vaccines with the WHO’s COVAX mechanism, which provides vaccines to poorer nations. He also announced a \u00abDrive to December\u00bb campaign, in which countries should aim to vaccinate at least 10% of their populations by September, and at least 30% by the end of this year. But, in order to reach the September goal, he said, 250 million more people in low- and middle-income countries have to get vaccinated, \u00abincluding all health workers and the most at-risk groups as the first priority. Vaccine manufacturing must be scaled up, he argued, and questioned why some companies won’t share their licenses and technologies with those manufacturers who want to help produce vaccines.\u00a0

\u00abThis is crucial to stop severe disease and death, keep our health workers safe and reopen our economies,\u00bb Dr. Tedros elaborated. He warned that \u00abthose countries that vaccinate children and other low-risk groups now, do so at the expense of health workers and high-risk groups in other countries. That\u2019s the reality.\u00bb He noted that while virus variants don’t seem to have undermined current vaccines, variants are \u00abchanging constantly,\u00bb and that any future ones could \u00abrender our tools ineffective and drag us back to square one.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHO Director Denounces \u00abScandalous\u00bb Vaccine Inequity, Warns the Pandemic Is Not Over May 25 (EIRNS)–Addressing the 74th annual meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), on May 24, World Health Organization director, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, delivered a stark message. \u00abMake no mistake,\u00bb he said. \u00abThis will not be the last time the world faces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":74817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[643,520,38,505,508,639,634],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-74815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-updates-development","category-allgemein-it","category-updates","category-updates-geopolitics","category-global-diplomacy","category-healthcare","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74827,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74815\/revisions\/74827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}