Pandemic
in sentence
1982 examples of Pandemic in a sentence
For starters, the
pandemic
is fundamentally a crisis born of globalization, requiring a cooperative global response.
And the evidence from the COVID-19
pandemic
suggests that the nation-state is indeed ill equipped for the crisis at hand; the most immediate needs are either highly local or supranational.
But with views from different parts of the new administration and Congress influencing future appointments and legislation, and with another
pandemic
spending package in the offing, it would help to have a more rules-based monetary policy in place at the Fed.
The
pandemic
has highlighted the high price low-wage workers in the US have paid for employers’ obsessive focus on labor-replacing automation.
The
pandemic
revealed that many countries depend on China for the bulk of their PPE, and China’s decision to block exports of these goods led to widespread shortages.
In the absence of coherent, capable, and trustworthy governments that can implement an equitable and sustainable
pandemic
response and strategy for economic recovery, the world will succumb to further waves of instability generated by a growing array of global crises.
Faced with a global
pandemic
and climate change, political leaders around the world should re-examine exactly what makes their citizens more or less secure.
Moreover, the COVID-19
pandemic
has shone a harsh light on the ways health outcomes are linked to social and economic disparities, and this realization has led to the politicization of other data, such as that relating to crime incidence, incomes, and ethnic identities.
That was the first three-year drop in life expectancy since the Spanish flu
pandemic
of 1918-19; with two epidemics now raging at once, life expectancy is set to fall again.
Such was the US on the eve of the COVID-19
pandemic.
In addition, the
pandemic
is fueling further industry consolidation by favoring already dominant e-commerce giants at the expense of struggling brick-and-mortar firms.
Notably, deaths of despair were rising before the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession, when US unemployment rose from 4.5% to 10%, and they continued to rise as unemployment gradually fell to 3.5% in the days before the
pandemic.
China’s Five-Finger PunchNEW DELHI – As the world struggles to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, which first emerged in China, Chinese President Xi Jinping is pursuing his quest for regional dominance more aggressively than ever.
Undoing the damage will not be easy, especially with the COVID-19
pandemic
compounding America’s problems.
First on the agenda will be recovery from the
pandemic.
The
pandemic
has taken a massive toll at the bottom of the income and wealth distribution.
Now, the
pandemic
has put the final nail in neoliberalism’s coffin, revealing an economy utterly lacking in resilience and a state left incapable of responding effectively to a crisis.
The Planet After the PandemicBASEL – Scientists have little doubt: the destruction of nature makes humanity increasingly vulnerable to disease outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, which has sickened millions, killed hundreds of thousands, and devastated countless livelihoods worldwide.
While some politicians have claimed that a
pandemic
of this scale was unforeseen, many experts believed that it was all but inevitable, given the proliferation of zoonotic diseases (caused by pathogens that jump to humans from other animals).
Lest we forget, just before the pandemic, countries were experiencing unprecedented wildfires and devastating flooding.
After projecting an annual fiscal deficit of $1 trillion before the pandemic, the CBO has raised its estimate of the deficit for fiscal year 2020 (which ends in September) by an additional $2.2 trillion, followed by an additional $0.6 trillion in 2021.
The consensus view is that these expenditures are justified, given the unprecedented, horrific circumstances of the
pandemic.
While a large fiscal deficit may be warranted because of the pandemic, politicians and the public should know that a dangerously high debt-to-GDP ratio will need to be addressed once the immediate crisis has passed.
Most economic observers recognize that “normal” growth cannot resume until the
pandemic
is brought under control.
How Poverty Reduction Can Survive DeglobalizationNEW HAVEN – The COVID-19
pandemic
seems to have curtailed globalization in ways that the current US administration could scarcely have dreamed up even a year ago.
But the
pandemic
has since threatened to reverse some of this progress; and even without the current crisis, poverty would have remained an important challenge in many parts of the world, not least Sub-Saharan Africa.
If only political leaders responding to the COVID-19
pandemic
had an ounce of his insight.
Yet this emergency has yet to register on the
pandemic
response agenda.
Even before the pandemic, 258 million children were out of school, and progress toward universal education had stalled.
Second, the
pandemic
creates an opportunity to address the wider learning crisis.
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