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World could have prevented COVID catastrophe, independent panel finds
The scale of the coronavirus pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel has said. Governments and the WHO have been accused of not reacting quickly enough to early warning signs.
A faster international response could have lessened the deadly consequences of the COVID pandemic
The catastrophic scale of the coronavirus pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel concluded Wednesday.
A combination of dithering and poor coordination provided a toxic cocktail that hastened the spread of the virus that has claimed more than 3.3 million lives.
Institutions failed to protect people while science-denying leaders eroded public trust in health interventions, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) said in its long-awaited final report.
Opinion/Letter: Trump worship and our democracy
Portsmouth Herald
To the Editor:
Somehow, Trump has managed to get millions of Americans to worship him as if he were God! That, together with the continuing gridlock in Washington, should serve as a warning that our political system needs change.
For example, in a letter that appeared on April 2, Irving Glater wrote that President Biden should thank Trump for the development of the COVID vaccine. He should tell that to the families of well over 500,000 Americans who have died because of Trump s denying the seriousness of the problem for so long! The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 20, 2020. By early April, over 30,000 new cases were reported in the US every day. Trump didn t announce OperationWarp Speed until May 15, when it was far too late for safety measures to stop the pandemic, as some other countries had done. The pharmaceutical industry did an am
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In case of corporate abuse would Govt of India bail out Covid-19 vaccine makers? By Shobha Shukla, Bobby Ramakant, Sandeep Pandey. Dated: 12/30/2020 10:49:13 AM
“Poonawalla needs to be reminded that India, along with other governments, is negotiating a UN legally binding global treaty on human rights and business. It is the governments that need to hold abusive corporations legally and financially liable. It is the responsibility of institutions, like Medical Research Councils, Drug Controller Generals, and other regulatory bodies like US FDA and…”
Should a government come up with laws to protect a corporation against liability lawsuits, or should it come up with laws to regulate corporations and empower citizens so that corporations can be held to account for any kind of abuses or exploitation?