Espinoza: Just a warning?
Espinoza: Just a warning?
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Let's take a step back from ranting and raving about mask-wearing and U.S. vaccination rates.
A more global view of the pandemic is being lost amid the fighting over mask wearing breaking out across the U.S.
The delay will undoubtedly cost countless lives and risk future, potentially dangerous mutations of the Covid-19 virus. The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, initial tests showed, is far less effective against the Covid-19 variant that has spread rapidly through South Africa, for example. A prolonged pandemic will also threaten to extend and exacerbate a global economic downturn. In response, governments around the world are considering a temporary exemption to traditional intellectual property rights in order to rapidly produce coronavirus treatments at low cost, a demand intensely opposed by Ame...