Skolnik: Global Health Challenges In The Age Of COVID
Los Alamos
Global Health Challenges in the Age of COVID
The Key Issues
The present pandemic is the quintessential global health problem. Yet, it is not the only global health challenge that we face. I comment below both on the pandemic and on other critical issues in global health.
Getting COVID under Control
“The health of anyone, anywhere, is the health of everyone, everywhere”. COVID highlights the importance of this, since no country can be safe, as long as the virus is circulating anywhere else.
In addition, only by controlling the virus can we stop social, economic, and educational hemorrhaging. Thus, the first challenge is getting COVID under control – everywhere