{"id":37404,"date":"2021-07-07T17:56:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T00:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37404"},"modified":"2021-07-07T17:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T00:56:04","slug":"who-denounces-vaccine-nationalism-as-global-death-toll-passes-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37404","title":{"rendered":"WHO denounces vaccine nationalism as global death toll passes 4 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Health Organization Director-General\u00a0Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\u00a0on Wednesday denounced &#8220;morally indefensible&#8221; vaccine nationalism as the world passes 4 million COVID-19 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have just passed the tragic milestone of 4 million recorded COVID-19 deaths, which likely underestimates the overall toll,&#8221; he said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong>\u00a0But while the death toll climbs, countries are not sharing the pain equally. Wealthier countries, including the United States, have much greater access to vaccines than many lower-income countries.<\/p>\n<p>Tedros said this disparity is not only morally wrong but also hinders the fight against the virus by potentially allowing new, more dangerous variants to form as the virus circulates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vaccine nationalism, where a handful of nations have taken the lion\u2019s share, is morally indefensible and an ineffective public health strategy against a respiratory virus that is mutating quickly and becoming increasingly effective at moving from human-to-human,&#8221; Tedros said. &#8220;At this stage in the pandemic, the fact that millions of health and care workers have still not been vaccinated is abhorrent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Health Organization Director-General\u00a0Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\u00a0on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37405,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37404\/revisions\/37405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}