‘In bid to contain Covid-19, global response was over-emphasised at expense of national initiatives’
Still, itt would be a mistake to address the inadequacies in the WHO response by dismantling the organisation or abandoning it, says author Andrew Lakoff. Dec 18, 2020 · 03:30 pm A healthcare worker ollects a swab sample from a man at a weekly market in New Delhi on October 13. | Anushree Fadnavis/ Reuters
Manjari Mahajan, co-editor of
Pandemic Discourses, interviewed Andrew Lakoff, professor of sociology and Communication at the University of Southern California and author, most recently, of
Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency.
Excerpts from the interview:
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“We need help,” said Bjorn Eriksson, director of healthcare for the Stockholm region, at a recent news conference, per Reuters, noting that 83 patients were in intensive care beds. “That corresponds more or less to all intensive care beds we normally have.”
Despite more months passing and a first wave that many hoped would immunize the country, Sweden’s coronavirus approach doesn’t seem to be paying dividends so far and the situation is close to spiraling out of control, even as the country has one of the best medical systems in the world.
Rather ironically, Sweden ended up in this situation by listening to scientists or rather, by listening to one scientist in particular: Anders Tegnell, the current state epidemiologist of Sweden. The Swedish constitution prohibits ministerial rule and mandates that the relevant government body (in this case, the Public Health Agency) must initiate action on relevant challenges. It’s very unusual for politicians to ever overrule
Contexts by Rashawn Ray and Fabio Rojas | December 17, 2020 | Fall 2020
Fabio Rojas and Rashawn Ray, Editors of Contexts Magazine. (Photo by Alisha Kirchoff)
On the day of the 2020 presidential election in the United States, the country had more than 1,000,000 COVID-19 diagnoses. As numbers continue to rise, the U.S. is approaching 10 million COVID-19 diagnoses and is well on its way to an unfathomable 250,000 deaths. These numbers are substantially more than any other country and represent nearly 20 percent of the virus’s total fatalities across the globe.
Worldwide, nearly 50 million people have contracted COVID-19. However, some countries and territories have managed to contain the virus better than others. Taiwan has few cases, despite its proximity to Wuhan, China. However, the coronavirus outbreak has exposed what the Global Health Security Index found the world was not prepared for an outbreak. S
Perception survey of aid recipients in Somalia, December 2020
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Before the first case of COVID-19 was officially confirmed on 16 March 2020, Somalia was in a state of emergency resulting from the worst locust infestation in 25 years. With food supplies already under threat, the infestation was exacerbated by heavy floods, which not only displaced half a million people, but also provided ideal conditions for the locusts to flourish. Since then, Somalia has confirmed 4,301 cases and 107 deaths as a result of COVID-19. Ranked 194th of 195 countries on the Global Health Security Index, Somalia is among the countries least equipped to detect and respond to epidemics. The ratio of health workers per 100,000 people is just 2, far below the global standard of 25, and there are only 15 ICU beds available for a population of over 15 million people.
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