Shout out to my colleagues covering climate change, because--speaking personally--the inability of leaders to respond to a disease with straight-forward solutions & realtime consequences has gutted any hope I might have for us responding to a long-term existential threat.
@WHO@DrTedros “Many countries in the South are much better than countries in the North at delivering mass population-based vaccination”, says @DrMikeRyan.
“They've proven it again and again, with yellow fever, with meningitis, with cholera, with Ebola, with polio, with measles.”
@WHO@DrTedros@DrMikeRyan “The problem is lack of access to vaccines, and that's causing a two track pandemic”, says @drtedros. Highly vaccinated countries are opening up, while other places face surges with severe disease and death.
"That's the reality now.
So let's be real.
What we need is vaccines."
At first light, mini-matriarch Maisha leads the Nursery herd of orphaned #elephants into the forest. Watch to the end for the ‘Bondeni’ show - this playful bull just can't resist his camera close up.
@ashishkjha@DrTedros Has the US done enough?
Robert Schooley told me: “We have worked with our counterparts in sub-Saharan Africa for 20 years to try to help them build a more resilient health care infrastructure and we’re sitting on our hands watching that be torn apart by the coronavirus.”
@ashishkjha As @DrTedros said recently: "The world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure”.
And it’s not just about vaccines, it’s about therapeutics like tocilizumab, it's about ventilators, oxygen, masks.
I’m really struggling with this idea of a race to vaccinate everyone HERE now. Yes, we all want vaccine asap. But while we are discussing how soon we can immunize everyone in Germany or the US, health workers are dying in countries with zero doses so far.
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"Addressing racism is not a one-time exercise. Racism is a complex cultural phenomenon; combatting it demands action every day, at every level."
-- @antonioguterres https://t.co/wKQSELT3uh
Ms. Blancas went viral for this video in 2018. In Oct. she got Covid and spent the next 7 weeks in the ICU. She ran out of sick days & lost her health insurance. A GoFundMe was set up for medical expenses. She passed away on Sunday. A #1stgrade teacher at 35yrs old, gone.
I moved from the middle of nowhere to London to study in 1990 and saw this film 3 times at the cinema and once at the University Film Society. How sophisticated was I?
@DrMarkAldridge@neildmck Oh, well that's not good enough - if there's one thing we all need right now it's waterproof footwear! Hopefully you'll get a swift refund.
@neildmck@DrMarkAldridge Also, try Dunlop if you haven't already. I got some a couple of years ago because I needed some in a hurry and that was all I could get locally (probably cheaper too).