Atty. Joey Lina
To show the magnitude of disproportion in access to the first COVID-19 vaccines being deployed at the start of 2021, a stark contrast was portrayed.
“More than 39 million doses of vaccine have now been administered in at least 49 higher-income countries. Just 25 doses have been given in one lowest-income country. Not 25 million; not 25 thousand; just 25,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus lamented.
“I need to be blunt: the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure – and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries,” Ghebreyesus warned in his Jan. 18 remarks at the 148th session of the WHO executive board.
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Two cities, separated by US-Mexico border, are in completely different stages of pandemic Lauren Villagran, El Paso Times; Veronica Martinez, special to the El Paso Times
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EL PASO, Texas – Army Maj. Carlos Gutierrez popped into an airport gift shop on his way to catch a flight for his second trip to California since getting vaccinated against COVID-19 – the surest sign for him that the pandemic is finally receding. I had stayed away from traveling because of the high risk. But with the vaccines, things are opening up, said Gutierrez, 43, traveling from El Paso to visit his grandmother, whom he hadn t seen since the pandemic began.
The world s haves and have-nots : Global vaccine disparities on display at El Paso-Juárez border Lauren Villagran, El Paso Times / Veronica Martinez, special to the El Paso Times
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Army Maj. Carlos Gutierrez popped into an El Paso airport gift shop on his way to catch a flight for his second trip to California since getting vaccinated against COVID-19 the surest sign for him that, in the U.S., the pandemic is finally receding. I had stayed away from traveling because of the high risk. But with the vaccines, things are opening up, said Gutierrez, 43, traveling to visit his grandmother, who he hadn t seen since the pandemic began.