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The coronavirus may be receding in New York and Toronto and Tel Aviv, but for much of the world it is a more fearsome threat than ever: Fueled by the spread of more-contagious variants and abetted by a profoundly unequal vaccination drive â 85 percent of all doses have been administered in high- and upper-middle-income countries â the pandemic has already killed more people in 2021 than it did in all of 2020.
âTrickle-down vaccination is not an effective strategy for fighting a deadly respiratory virus,â the director general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said last month. âCovid-19 has already cost more than 3.3 million lives and weâre on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first.â
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