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As the world emerges from the pandemic, we must focus on transforming school systems and tearing down the barriers that prevent us from providing a quality education for every child.
At the start of the pandemic, many policymakers and health leaders considered a relatively short disruption of essential health services acceptable, but it is now clear that COVID-19 will persist much longer than anticipated.
In a grim recent assessment of the global costs of the COVID-19 crisis, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reported that in 25 weeks, the
pandemic
had set the world back about 25 years in terms of vaccine coverage – a good proxy for how health systems are functioning overall.
Even before the pandemic, it was estimated that at least half of the world’s 7.8 billion people lacked access to essential health services.
In Taiwan, for example, low-cost universal health-care coverage has continued throughout the pandemic, and Rwanda has continued operating a new radiotherapy center for cancer treatment.
Clinics in Sub-Saharan Africa are also innovating to continue the monitoring and treatment of the region’s 19 million diabetes patients during the
pandemic.
Beyond the escalating global health emergency, which has already killed thousands, the
pandemic
has disrupted normal trade and travel, forced many school closures, roiled the international financial system, and sunk global stock markets.
The COVID-19
pandemic
has highlighted the costs of Xi’s increasing authoritarianism.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital services – from telemedicine to remote work to online learning – have been a lifeline for the millions of people subjected to lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders.
Even before the pandemic, the need to harness the power of digital finance for the good of the planet and its citizens was increasingly being recognized.
Unlike a conventional war, the COVID-19
pandemic
is not a choice or a competition.
The International Labor Organization forecasts anywhere from 5.3 million to 24.7 million lost jobs due to the
pandemic.
Yet there is little reason to expect the
pandemic
to come to a quick and decisive end.
As Robert Muggah and Rebecca Katz recently argued, cities need a
pandemic
preparedness map.
Recovery Is Not EnoughBRISBANE – COVID-19 is hitting everyone hard, and behind the scenes, defense and government leaders are viewing the
pandemic
as an example of the type of blow from which modern societies must be able to recover.
Or consider a
pandemic
accompanied by cyberwarfare, the kind that can knock out critical infrastructure with a click.
To prepare for such possibilities, countries will have to go beyond simply restoring depleted infrastructure and establishing toothless new institutions after the
pandemic.
We should expect one or both firms to file for bankruptcy soon, heralding a surge of US business failures caused by the COVID-19
pandemic.
By addressing that issue, we might be able to improve our chances of averting another
pandemic
in the future.
Before the lockdown pandemic, there were six flights per week from Wuhan to Paris (as well as five to Rome and three to London), and frequent non-stop flights to San Francisco and New York.
When the WHO declared COVID-19 a
pandemic
on March 11, it might already have been too late.
This reflected not only a craving to be reunited with friends and family, but also a broader feeling that their countries had been helpless and abandoned in the face of the global
pandemic.
Paradoxically, the ECFR poll shows that the absence of European Union help for member states during the first phase of the crisis has led to an overwhelming demand for concerted EU action – both to help countries recover from the crisis and to equip them to survive in the world the
pandemic
is creating.
Some 63% of respondents in Italy and 61% in France said that the EU did not rise to the challenge posed by the
pandemic.
Before the pandemic, European politics often seemed to be defined by opposing camps of nationalists and globalists.
And in all nine countries, the proportion of respondents who support more action on climate change as a result of the
pandemic
exceeds the share who favor less.
As the world’s largest economies, the G20’s members have one overriding responsibility at the upcoming meeting: to agree on actions to suppress the
pandemic.
Many are so poorly governed that they have been utterly ineffective in containing the
pandemic.
All people must be cautious until the
pandemic
is suppressed.
Whereas women leaders (in New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, and elsewhere) have a superior track record on the pandemic, the G20, alas, has only one, Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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