The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the stark disparity in the distribution of “Corona” vaccines between rich and poor countries confirms that “we are no longer on the brink, but rather we have fallen into the abyss.”
He added, in a speech delivered at the Robert McNamara symposium on war and peace organized by the Kennedy Institute of Harvard University, that he had warned early last year that the stark disparity in the distribution of vaccines between rich and poor countries puts the world on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure. He added that this contrast today confirms that “we are no longer on the brink, but rather we have fallen into the abyss.”
He also criticized the subjection of science to politics in dealing with the pandemic, and pointed out that “political considerations and calculations have prevented scientific standards and evidence from being the only basis for making decisions about public health.”
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