{"id":43855,"date":"2022-01-18T21:42:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T05:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43855"},"modified":"2022-01-18T21:42:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T05:42:40","slug":"who-official-world-has-chance-to-end-worst-of-covid-19-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43855","title":{"rendered":"WHO OFFICIAL: WORLD HAS &#8216;CHANCE TO END&#8217; WORST OF COVID-19 THIS YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If medicine and vaccine inequities are quickly dealt with, the world has\u00a0a \u201cchance to end\u201d the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic this year, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Ryan, the executive director for WHO\u2019s Health Emergencies Programme, said during a World Economic Forum-hosted panel that the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, including\u00a0lockdown measures and COVID-19-caused deaths, would continue if resources like the vaccine were not equitably distributed by businesses and governments,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xchsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqdhcsdjd_igcymmvhvwydbhmbdzyd.html?a=&amp;b=46321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xchsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqdhcsdjd_igcymmvhvwydbhmbdzyd.html?a%3D%26b%3D46321&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1642647331759000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3oYD0D2To8vGrNDWOeB6Lp\">The Associated Press reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, he noted that \u201cwe have a chance to end the public health emergency this year if we do the things that we\u2019ve been talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan blamed \u201cdisruption of our social, economic, political systems\u201d for causing the pandemic hardships faced by many citizens around the world, \u201cnot the virus,\u201d according to the news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we need to do is get to low levels of disease incidence with maximum vaccination of our populations, so nobody has to die,\u201d the WHO official said.<\/p>\n<p>WHO officials have slammed wealthier nations for not doing a better job\u00a0prioritizing providing initial vaccine doses to poorer countries over giving out booster shots to their own citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If medicine and vaccine inequities are&#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":[16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43855","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=43855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43856,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43855\/revisions\/43856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}