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The Inequality Virus

“There is a huge disconnect In many advanced economies where vaccination

growing, where in some rates have been increasing, restaurants are opening,
airports and beaches are packed and life is returning
countries with the highest to normal. In India, a massive spike in infections has

vaccination rates, there led to dire shortages of oxygen, hospital beds and
medicines and a sudden surge in corpses washing
appears to be a mindset that up along the Ganges River. The coronavirus’ impact
the pandemic is over, while during its first year was remarkably democratic,

others are experiencing with rich and poor countries suffering alike. But as
hundreds of millions of vaccine doses are distributed
huge waves of infection. in rich nations, the world’s wealth divide has grown
The situation in a number of into a chasm.

countries continues to be very Infections and death are declining in North America

concerning. The pandemic and Europe but are on the rise in Africa and soaring
in India, Brazil, Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia.
is a long way from over, and This divergence is not only a moral outrage but a

it will not be over anywhere threat to all of humanity. As SARS-CoV-2, the virus
that causes Covid-19, circulates freely in the alleys
until it’s over everywhere.” of Old Delhi and barrios of São Paolo, it is rapidly

mutating into more infectious and deadly variants
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, that could boomerang back onto wealthy nations
Director-General of the World Health Organization and sicken and kill those previously vaccinated. The
longer vaccination efforts in the developing world
are delayed, the greater the risks that Covid-19 never
goes away and that mutations – the variants – break
through the immunity of current vaccines. Until every
place is safe, no place will be safe. Beyond the threat
of mutations, a lack of equity in vaccine distribution
exacerbates fiscal and debt crisis in the developing
world which can lead to further instability.

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