Publishing date: May 07, 2021 • 1 day ago • 8 minute read WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 21: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the COVID-19 response and the state of vaccinations at the South Court Auditorium of Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. As of today, President Biden said the United States has distributed 200 million shots of COVID-19 vaccine. Photo by Alex Wong /Getty Images
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Former British prime minister Gordon Brown has been pushing for a more equitable global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, urging the community of nations to adequately fund vaccination campaigns in the developing world.
Brown, who currently serves as the United Nations special envoy for global education, joined a World Health Organization news conference on May 3 to address the pressing need for mass vaccinations in low- and middle-income countries. “By our failure to extend vaccination more rapidly to every country, we are
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Publishing date: Mar 12, 2021 • March 12, 2021 • 9 minute read New director-general of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, left, speaks with chair of the WTO General Council Ambassador David Walker during a session at the WTO headquarters in Geneva on March 1. Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI /Getty Images
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It’s been a year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, ushering in an era of lockdowns, suffering and mass death.
“With 2.6 million people dead and tens of trillions in economic damage, we are living through the worst crisis of our lifetimes,” Dr. Peter Singer of the World Health Organization told the Whig-Standard in an email. “Vaccines are a critical tool for ending the pandemic and also for addressing variants and future pandemics.