Nations not working together seen as biggest failure of pandemic
Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity, who is the former president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Catholic Health Association)
By Dan Stockman • Catholic News Service • Posted April 9, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed how unprepared the world is even wealthy, technologically advanced nations to work together to stop an urgent crisis, Sister Carol Keehan said.
Sister Keehan, a Daughter of Charity, who is the former president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, told an April 7 World Health Day symposium on health equity that if the lessons of this pandemic are not learned, more people will needlessly die in future calamities.
Felician Sr. Maria Louise Edwards visits a man experiencing homelessness in Pomona, California. (Courtesy of Felician Sisters)
As the pandemic provoked shutdowns across the United States in March 2020, Jason s stress level began to climb. He had to handle cash as an essential employee selling car parts at an AutoZone in McKinney, Texas, a state with no mask mandate. His precarious health asthma, sarcoidosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, allergies put him at a higher risk of serious illness should he contract COVID-19.
As his hours dwindled at work, Jason s ability to pay his bills began to depend on the opportunity to mow someone s grass for quick cash or sell whatever he could find that was sitting in his garage: the tools he still needed, or the motorcycle, which was worth twice what he sold it for. On June 8, 2020, he lost his job.
For advocates for migrants and refugees, the response to incoming migrants at the border between the United States and Mexico is a source of emotional tension.
There is a sense of victory for the mig.
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Despite limitations imposed by the global pandemic, participants in two weeks of United Nations meetings that focused on women s participation in public life and the need to eliminate violence against women and girls praised the event as a necessary step in advancing gender equality.
Participants called the 65th session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women a success, but they also noted a sense of impatience with the pace of progress and said the pandemic year has set back the cause of women s equality globally.
This is particularly noticeable in the shadow of the fall s commemoration of the anniversary of the U.N. s landmark 1995 world conference on women in Beijing.