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Last month openDemocracy released the results of a global investigation into the treatment of women in childbirth during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Across 45 countries – from Canada to Cameroon, from the United Kingdom to Ecuador – we found what doctors and lawyers describe as “shocking” and “unnecessary” breaches of laws and World Health Organization guidelines intended to protect women and babies during the pandemic.
In fact, before the pandemic, 40% of babies across Latin America were already being delivered by C-section, though this method poses higher risks for mother and baby.
As Jesca Nsungwa Sabiiti, Uganda’s maternal and child health commissioner, has noted, the pandemic is likely to delay achievement of the targets even further.
Far too many women have felt alone, scared, and traumatized while giving birth during the pandemic.
In theory, the arrival of a safe and effective vaccine would represent the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is especially true when it comes to developing, manufacturing, and distributing a vaccine in the context of a pandemic.
The business model for future vaccine development is already being sized up now that the pandemic has revealed the potential windfall for investors.
Before the next pandemic arrives, we must recognize vaccines as global health commons, and start to reorient the innovation system toward symbiotic public-private partnerships governed in the public interest.
Today, a natural pandemic would have a far greater social impact than in times past.
But these days, the feeling of entitlement in many developed countries is so strong that social order would collapse as soon as a pandemic overwhelmed the health-care system.
The Future of Global PowerBERLIN – The COVID-19 pandemic is arguably the first truly global crisis of the twenty-first century.
Nonetheless, the pandemic, along with election-year politics in the US, seems to be amplifying and accelerating the confrontation.
Having mismanaged the pandemic and presided over an unprecedented domestic economic crisis, he needs a scapegoat, and China is the obvious choice.
The pandemic is reinforcing the general impression that the US is a decadent superpower, soon to be supplanted by a strategically deft and economically dynamic China.
US States Need Federal Funding to Combat the PandemicBERKELEY – The COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted federalism to the top of the political agenda in America.
The problem, of course, is that not even massive rainy-day funds are sufficient to fill the huge budgetary holes created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nonetheless, before the pandemic erupted, it was increasingly evident that investors and central banks were looking for alternatives to the “unloved dollar standard,” owing to the Trump administration’s unpredictable behavior and toxic brand of xenophobic nationalism.
With the greenback already slowly bleeding out, the pandemic inevitably will open the wound even wider.
But, as China’s leaders are acutely aware, climate change is already flooding Chinese rivers and pulling away stones, while other countries, including the United States, are battling historic wildfires in the midst of a pandemic.
What the Democrats Must DoBERKELEY – Like almost all other countries, the United States has become poorer since the COVID-19 pandemic began, because Americans can no longer engage in valuable activities that require close human contact.
Consider the nature of the pandemic economy.
European, Latin American, Caribbean, and Pacific leaders are putting climate mitigation and inclusive development at the center of their pandemic recovery plans.
Above all, the COVID-19 pandemic has presented overloaded health systems with the huge question of how to continue caring for patients in a secure, fair, and effective way.
As the pandemic spread, many governments hastily implemented medical and social-distancing protocols that mirrored the Chinese authorities’ draconian response.
After all, the COVID-19 pandemic is presenting health workers with tragic situations they have never experienced before.
But as the pandemic continues, other citizens whose conditions were not originally life-threatening may fall into the endangered category.
Our existing ethical frameworks were not devised for a pandemic – and it shows.
One of the most significant ethical changes during the pandemic will arise from the need to complement previously patient-centered medical systems with so-called community care.
After all, once the pandemic ends, we will still have to look one another in the eye, and not just on screen.
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