Unequal Vaccine Distribution Self-Defeating, World Health Organization Chief Tells Economic and Social Council’s Special Ministerial Meeting
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Disparities, Inequity ‘Morally Unconscionable’, Says Head of World Trade Organization, Urging Practical Means to Tackle Hurdles
With the number of new COVID-19 cases around the world nearly doubling over the past two months approaching the highest infection rate observed during the pandemic the unequal distribution of vaccines is not only a moral outrage, but economically and epidemiologically self-defeating, the head of the United Nations health agency told a special ministerial meeting of the Economic and Social Council today.
“Vaccine equity is the challenge of our time,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), told the gathering in opening remarks. “And we are failing.”
How Google searches reveal the hidden cost of lockdown
The number of people searching online for topics that are related to boredom, loneliness and worry rose sharply at the beginning of the first lockdown, a new study shows.
Experts examined Google Trends data from 10 countries across Europe and the United States and
found search patterns suggested lockdown had “severely affected” mental health.
They tracked how often people searched on Google for terms such as panic, divorce, suicide,
boredom and wellbeing.
When compared to the same period in 2019, the number of searches in Europe at the time of the
lockdown in 2020 for boredom rose by 93 per cent, loneliness 40 per cent and worry 27 per cent. In America, the number of searches at the time of the lockdown in 2020 for boredom rose by 57 per cent, loneliness by 16 per cent and worry by 12 per cent.
Guaranteeing The Right To Decent Work
The job guarantee is an ambitious proposal that aims to ensure everyone in society has access to fairly waged, decent work. Amid the upheaval caused by an economic recession that threatens widespread unemployment, solutions need to be found rapidly, and many proposals have been brought to the table, from universal basic income to more traditional stimulus measures.
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Pavlina Tcherneva, author of
The Case for a Job Guarantee, explains why these alternatives are destined to fall short, and sets out why a job guarantee would benefit not just the unemployed but society as a whole, providing individuals with greater autonomy, empowering communities, and contributing to solutions to urgent problems such as the environmental and care crises.
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