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Pandemic in sentence

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Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization in the midst of the pandemic battle has immediate global repercussions.
The same is true of his efforts to launch a new cold war with China, instead of saving his own country and cooperating with China to help the rest of the world fight the pandemic.
It has used the world’s most decisive measures to suppress a fulminant pandemic (after the first outbreak in Wuhan) and may well be on the way to producing the first useful vaccine.
There is no way to save the economy without stopping the pandemic.
This will not be easy, given that the pandemic is exacerbating pre-existing inequalities.
We hope they can wield this powerful tool during the pandemic itself.
By emphasizing support for the most vulnerable today, all countries will be in a stronger position to “build back better” after the pandemic.
At the start of this pandemic, our friend Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate economist, reminded us of good and bad examples of leadership during times of crisis.
But the mixed global response to the current COVID-19 pandemic suggests that the world is in danger of forgetting this lesson.
The accelerating pandemic is also exacting a shocking human and economic toll, first and foremost in terms of lost lives, but also as a result of bankruptcies, job losses, and mental-health problems.
That means African economies’ interconnectedness with the rest of the world is vital to their survival during the pandemic, and to their eventual recovery and growth.
That means rejecting protectionism, which would only prolong the pandemic and deepen the already-severe global recession.
Making matters worse, Xi attempted to capitalize on the pandemic, first by hoarding medical products – a market China dominates – and then by stepping up aggressive expansionism, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.
Thanks to the example Trump set, only in the United States is there any doubt about the need for face masks and social distancing during a pandemic.
Never mind that the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic has been worse than that of any other government on the planet, leading to almost 240,000 deaths, and counting.
According to the World Food Program, some 8.6 million Zimbabweans need help, and acute malnutrition is expected to rise by 15% in 2020, exacerbated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A sound forecast for the US economy, then, must start by forecasting the future of the pandemic.
LONDON – In an April commentary about the wild gyrations in financial markets during the February-March phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, I noted that the behavior of equity markets had been as bewildering, complex, and fascinating as ever.
For example, imagine if COVID-19 infection rates across Europe were to start spiking again, as they have in the United States and other pandemic hotspots around world.
Even the United Kingdom, after dithering through the earlier stages of the pandemic, has significantly improved its response.
Still No Care for Care WorkersNEW DELHI – Those who thought that a pandemic would make everyone realize the crucial role of care workers should think again.
Women health-care workers are also more at risk in the current pandemic, because they are more likely to be involved in activities that require close physical contact with patients.
For a brief period after the pandemic first erupted, these workers were widely recognized for their critical contributions to society.
The public acclaim has not translated into better working conditions or higher wages, and certainly not systematic efforts to ensure their physical safety during the pandemic.
America under Biden also would remain a member of the World Health Organization and work on pandemic prevention in a multilateral framework.
There are several reasons why this pandemic is such a potent threat to the region.
Although other developed countries in Europe and Asia seem to be containing the spread, the US has gone in the opposite direction, with the pandemic spreading remorselessly to southern and western states: Arizona had as many cases as the entire European Union, which has 60 times the population.
This is why pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, for example, didn’t wait until the pandemic to cover their faces.
At the end of the day, the pandemic and the protests should remind us of a simple truth: a mask is always just a mask.
But unemployment remains significantly higher, and employment significantly lower, than before the pandemic.
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