Lessons
In January, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, issued a blunt warning. The world was “on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure,” he said. Wealthy countries were buying up available COVID-19 vaccines, leaving tiny amounts for others a replay of what happened during the 2009 influenza pandemic. “The price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries,” Tedros said.
He was right. Today, some rich countries are vaccinating children as young as 12 years old, who are at extremely low risk of developing severe COVID-19, while poorer countries don’t even have enough shots for health care workers. Nearly 85% of the COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to date have gone to people in high-income and upper middle–income countries. The countries with the lowest gross domestic product per capita only have 0.3%.
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You have got to be kidding me? In the past few days, the Wuhan lab leak theory has done an about-face so fast your head would spin. It was denigrated and dismissed as tin foil hat material. It was bats t crazy talk to even suggest COVID came from a laboratory. Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo suggested it so therefore it must be wrong. That’s the default liberal media take on everything that the past administration did. If Trump said water is wet, the liberal media would disagree. We all know this. Even liberals like Bill Maher noted this when it came to COVID advice on protocols, where he took swipes at Anthony Fauci and the rest of the expert class for their ‘you can’t handle the truth’ approach that has led to total mayhem among the masses. No one knows what to believe and most of the mandates were not based on science, especially when it comes to mask-wearing after vaccination. Even Fauci admitted his mask-wearing post-vaccination was
Wuhan Lab Staff Went to Hospital Before COVID-19 Outbreak Was Disclosed: Report
The report came on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organisation s decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 3, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Thomas Peter/File Photo
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New Delhi: Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic, the