Pitfalls of vaccine nationalism
Workers unload a pickup van that carries Oxford-Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccines which arrived from India as a gift to Bangladesh, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 21, 2021. Photo: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters
In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic brought the world literally to a standstill, with infections in the millions and deaths of more than 1.8 million people. But then, another one million died in the next three months. The number of Covid-19 deaths now stands at 2,887,039 as of April 7, 2021, and the number keeps increasing every day.
This, of course, may not be a very high figure compared to some other pandemics, like the Black Death or the Spanish Flu. The former killed as many as 225 million people in four years in 1347-1351, while the latter killed 50 million people in 2 years in 1918-1919. In recent times, the Swine Flu killed between 151,700-575,400 people in 2009-2010, while the Ebola virus killed only 11,300 people in 2014-2016. The Asian Flu (H
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March 11, 2021
e-KNOW Editorial
By Ian Cobb
What a year it’s been. Hugely memorable yet wildly unfulfilling, the past 12 months – March 11, 2020 to March 11, 2021 have established a range of forced changes on human behaviour for the good of the masses. And as there is always a yin to yang, we’ve witnessed some of the sorriest and most selfish of human behaviours.
At the start of the pandemic, many people railed about it being a hoax. Every single one of those people I spoke with or learned about who barked “hoax” were not doctors, nor nurses or people with any simple clue about what was happening around the world.
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