Last summer in Berlin, Christine Wagner could safely do something Covid-19 prevented much of the world’s population from doing: go to a movie theater.
The possibility of strangers sitting together, indoors, for hours, taking off masks to eat popcorn and other snacks, led even big chains like AMC to shut down for some time in the US. But in Germany, things were different: The virus was under enough control for the country to reopen with some social distancing and masking rules. So Wagner could go out and indoors with her friends.
“Everyone was free,” Wagner, the head of pandemic communication and strategy at a local German health department, told me. “We could go out to travel, meet friends. … It was like normal life.”
Summary
The pandemic has brought forward a new agenda for multilateralism, focused on areas including global health, economic recovery, climate, technology, and trade.
In trying to promote global cooperation, the EU must take account of competition with China and other illiberal powers across these areas.
The EU should pursue a twin-track strategy, seeking to revitalise institutions that include rival powers while promoting deeper cooperation with like-minded countries.
Europe should launch an initiative to build up global vaccine manufacturing and encourage the free movement of medical goods, and set up a ‘preparedness club’ of countries committed to transparency in their health systems.
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WHO Webinar - Confronting Poverty and Income Insecurity during COVID-19 through Strengthening Social Protection
WHO Webinar - Confronting Poverty and Income Insecurity during COVID-19 through Strengthening Social Protection 25 February 2021 12:00 – 13:00 CET
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Background on the WHO webinar series
The COVID-19 pandemic and containment responses have exacerbated existing social, economic, gender, ethnic and health inequities. The WHO Global Webinar Series on Equity, COVID-19 and the Social Determinants of Health (SDH) discusses the disproportionate impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on more disadvantaged population groups, with a focus on how it is widening health inequities. It should serve as a call for action to support those groups most affected, to mitigate impacts, and to take the opportunity of the pandemic to revisit how societies deal with the SDH and health equity. Each seminar in this Series will cover the evidence on inequities in health exa
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