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With the virus now having been identified on six continents, the World Health Organization has raised its threat assessment to its highest level.
Senior WHO officials, for example, were criticized both for applauding the Chinese government’s efforts to contain the virus and for their own delay in declaring it an epidemic.
Moreover, despite repeated calls for more resources to tackle the virus, the WHO has received only a small amount of the support pledged by the international community, forcing it to rely instead on its internal lending mechanisms.
And at a time when governments should be taking coordinated action to contain the virus, many airlines have suspended flights to China, even though the WHO and the International Air Transport Association have not advised such a move.
COVID-19 is the fourth major virus outbreak since 2000.
Fortunately, fears of the virus taking as many as 2.2 million lives in the US (under a scenario of taking no action) were quickly dispelled.
Tens of thousands have died, and the virus will continue to pose a threat, particularly to the elderly and those with comorbidities like diabetes, respiratory diseases, and heart conditions.
There is also a clear need for substantially more testing, both for the virus itself, to prevent further community transmission, and for antibodies to determine may already be immune, as well as herd immunity levels.
Sadly, one of that code’s key components – the First Amendment – is under attack from an aggressive virus unleashed from within the White House.
What explains the ease with which this virus seems, sometimes, to travel great distances?
Yet President Donald Trump’s administration seems to be concerned primarily with playing down the risks, while keeping the virus out of the US – a nearly impossible task.
And now that a number of lawmakers have also contracted the virus, congressional deliberations on many vital matters have been delayed.
After trying and failing to convince the rest of the world to call COVID-19 the “Chinese virus,” the Trump administration has peddled an unsubstantiated theory that the pathogen was created in a lab in Wuhan.
For starters, the US needs better pool testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, timely tracing, and focused isolation of COVID-19 infections.
And no, this is not a continental North American problem: Canada loses only around ten people per day to the virus.
Yet another cause for fear is the prevalence of the virus itself.
With such a persistently high risk of contracting the virus, US consumers will continue to be much more cautious than their counterparts in Japan, Canada, or Germany when it comes to returning to semi-normal economic activities like dining out or air travel.
Patents vs. the PandemicNEW YORK – Imagine a world in which a global network of medical professionals monitored for emerging strains of a contagious virus, periodically updated an established formula for vaccinating against it, and then made that information available to companies and countries around the world.
Monopoly control over the technology used in testing for the virus has hampered the rapid rollout of more testing kits, just as 3M’s 441 patents mentioning “respirator” or “N95” have made it more difficult for new producers to manufacture medical-grade face masks at scale.
The result is that his followers gleefully reject wearing them, and the virus, which started in the “blue” (Democratic) coastal states, is now hitting Trump’s base in “red” (Republican) states hard.
With the exception of Canada and all too few other places, the countries of North and South America are being ravaged by the virus, because almost the entire Western hemisphere shares a legacy of mass inequality and pervasive racial discrimination.
China is rather unequal (with a Gini score of 38.5), but its national and provincial governments adopted rigorous control measures after the initial Wuhan outbreak, essentially suppressing the virus.
If pandemics threaten national security, for example, then the US will need to invest in a more robust health system while substantially ramping up its engagement in international institutions like the World Health Organization to prepare for the next virus.
Now, the virus has newly exposed the pre-existing inequalities.
The effects of the virus are stratified by educational attainment, because those with more education are likelier to be able to continue working and earning from home.
Those prone to conspiracy theories believe that the virus is a biological weapon aimed at China’s economy.
Until late December 2019, everyone affected by the virus had some link to Wuhan’s Huanan Market.
Nonetheless, policymakers must recognize that measures to reduce the deficit-to-GDP ratio will be urgently needed after the virus has been brought under control.
As the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition recently noted, malnourished individuals with compromised immunity are more at risk and susceptible to the spread of the virus.
I live in Connecticut, where the state’s governor and his pandemic task force have responded appropriately and done a good job of containing the virus.
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