{"id":39644,"date":"2021-09-07T16:47:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T23:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39644"},"modified":"2021-09-07T16:47:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T23:47:23","slug":"who-official-wealthy-nations-prolonging-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39644","title":{"rendered":"WHO OFFICIAL: WEALTHY NATIONS PROLONGING PANDEMIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) blasted wealthy nations on Tuesday, saying they are prolonging the pandemic by hoarding treatments and vaccines for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not just unfair, it\u2019s not just immoral, it\u2019s prolonging the pandemic,\u201d Maria Van Kerkhove, the group\u2019s technical lead for the coronavirus,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hnbmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqhhhhf_smrbmmvrvtbkvbjmmkrv.html?a=&amp;b=42097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hnbmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqhhhhf_smrbmmvrvtbkvbjmmkrv.html?a%3D%26b%3D42097&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1631142361439000&amp;usg=AFQjCNES7u2ZS1F2u6PF7jjU71sGZyy9WA\">said during a Q&amp;A<\/a>. \u201cAnd it is resulting in people dying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we had used the vaccine doses that were available differently, we\u2019d be in a very different situation right now globally,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ongoing calls for equity:\u00a0<\/strong>The WHO has for months been calling on wealthy nations to give poorer countries more vaccine doses and to pause booster shots until poorer countries are able to vaccinate more individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Countries in Africa and other parts of the world have struggled to get even 5 percent of their populations vaccinated while wealthier countries have begun administering booster shots for those who have already been fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) blasted&#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-39644","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\/39644","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=39644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39645,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39644\/revisions\/39645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}