Public fitness experts Eric A. Friedman, Chelsea Clinton and Lawrence O. Gostin argue that the United States deserves to abandon its “go alone” strategy and, in particular, develop its reaction to Covid-19’s reaction in low- and middle-income countries.
By Eric A. Friedman, Chelsea Clinton and Lawrence O. Gostin
Although Covid-19 cases in many low- and middle-income countries remain low for the United States and Europe, hospitalizations and deaths are expanding rapidly. Beyond Covid-19, thousands or even millions of deaths can be the result of disruptions in fitness systems and blockages, with their effects on hunger and poverty, AIDS and tuberculosis, child survival and polio, etc.
The reaction of rich countries has been deeply inadequate, with few billion dollars, probably more. The U.S. Congress has appropriated about $2 billion, or less than 0.1% of its domestic reaction. And the United States is not alone in responding to scant reactions, with other rich countries also failing to make commitments more or less in line with enormous needs.
Fundamental humanitarian and ethical impulses require a much more beneficial reaction. However, even from the point of view of an unexplained self-interest, the meagre US reaction is short-sighted and insufficient. Health, economic and geostrategic interests require much more global action.
The fitness of the United States in the fitness of the world. However, if Covid-19 takes off in low- and middle-income countries, where instances are on the rise, there will be a resurgence in the United States, which will strain our hospital system, more deaths and new blockades, with its economic and social damage. .
By doing so alone, the United States endangers Covid-19 vaccines in the long run.
The United States cannot protect its people by cutting ourselves off from the world. Even extensive travel bans and border closings cannot offer sufficient protection. Borders are porous, and viruses don’t need passports. And one day, international travel will resume. Despite China’s border closures, an outbreak of Covid-19 in Jilin, a city in northeast China near the Russian and North Korean borders, forced 108 million people back into a lockdown. A strain from South or Southeast Asia appears to be the origin of a recent outbreak in Beijing.
By acting alone, the dangers of the United States complete access to Covid-19 vaccines in the long term. No one knows where the first effective vaccine will be discovered and manufactured. It can also be in China or Europe, rather than in the United States. Depending on where and who manufactures vaccines, a mix of economic resources, producing countries and global equitable distribution commitments will be accessed. But there would possibly be some other factor. If it is noted that the United States is not cooperating in the world, can Americans also be removed from the line? And can the world also be angry about the launch of the United States of the World Health Organization to get out of the procedure in the midst of a historic global fitness crisis?
Lack of action can now also have long-term consequences for Americans’ fitness. Covid-19 undermines fitness systems by infecting and killing fitness workers. Low- and middle-income countries may be in debt, reducing their ability to trip and respond temporarily to further outbreaks, including, for example, swine flu circulating in China.
The economic well-being of Americans is also connected to the global economy. The consequences of the inability to provide resources to restrict Covid-19 damages in low- and middle-income countries are profoundly affecting the U.S. economy. With expectations of the biggest global economic downturn since the Great Depression and already large unemployment, the United States will want all the benefits to revitalize its economy. But the U.S. economy is wasting one of its economic engines. The greater the overall economic damage caused by Covid-19 and the greater the measures to involve it, the more the United States will find that export markets have dried up, as others lose their purchasing power.
U.S. exports Low- and middle-income countries are worth billions of dollars, even outside China. This includes more than $26 billion in exports to Africa in 2019, just $420 billion to Mexico and the rest of Latin America, more than $34 billion to India and billions more to countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Pakistan.
In addition, we rely heavily on imports to supply our grocery outlets and fill our kits. U.S. manufacturers, from automakers to tech giants, have a complex network of global source chains. The more disturbed the source chains are, the sicker staff are abroad, the worse the economic outlook for the United States.
Finally, a Covid-19 crisis and lack of a strong American reaction will damage our geostrategic interests. Unless the United States and other rich countries redirect their reactions to global solidarity, less rich countries will likely notice that these countries have spent billions, even trillions of dollars, on domestic reactions to Covid-19, but only the smallest fraction. of that for foreign assistance. They will have noticed that even amid their severe shortage of non-public protective devices and other medical needs, new materials have been sent to countries that can also pay more.
International cooperation is the sus cheapest path to global and US economic recovery.
Already, as is evident in the rest of the world, the United States has acquired almost the entire source over the next 3 months of antiviral redistribution, which may decrease the length of hospitalization of its US manufacturer Covid-19, a destructive danger that threatens to undermine the limited global cooperation that exists. And he believes that once effective treatments and vaccines are developed, others in low-income countries are the last to get them.
But foreign cooperation is the sus cheapest path to global and U.S. economic recovery. A human and effective reaction to mass migration, possibly increasing, fueled by hunger, poverty and unemployment, requires foreign cooperation. The same applies to U.S. national security interests, such as counter-terrorism and extremism, combating foreign crime, cybersecurity, and preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. sanctions to promote these and other U.S. interests will be more effective through multilateral sanctions regimes. Mitigating the climate crisis requires shared and immediate progress towards carbon-free economies. How much more difficult will cooperation be in a domain that has historically noticed divisions between the richest and least rich countries if we do not cooperate in Covid-19?
Moreover, as other countries compete with the United States for its influence and goodwill, some of which represent a percentage of our values, America’s ability to influence global affairs will further diminish if we show generosity and leadership at this time of global crisis. . Array Witness the positive exposure China gained for its $2 billion commitment to its global Covid-19 reaction at the recent World Health Assembly and its additional donations of limited debt relief to some African countries.
For economic, public and geostrategic reasons, it is in our national interest to carry out a reaction to Covid-19.
U.S. management seeks partnerships in Africa and gaining china’s support. Instead of a handful of enthusiasts and a monetary drop in the bucket relative to the point of needs, the United States deserves to supply several billion dollars, as in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS, and subscribe to the global partnership to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines and other Covid-19 technologies. Instead of neglecting the World Health Organization, the United States can justify it.
From the physical condition and bank accounts of Americans to the geostrategic interests of the United States, it is in our national interest to lead a global reaction to Covid-19, ranging from much more investment to the spouse’s participation in the progression of a global action plan to make certain materials and equipment, diagnoses, treatments and vaccines are shared equally. The scenario is getting worse in low-income countries, if we don’t act now, it’s probably too late.
Disclosure: Chelsea Clinton serves on the Board of Administrators of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, which works with the World Health Organization to get low-income countries to obtain mandatory materials and appliances through the UN’s Covid-19 source chain system.
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Chelsea Clinton is vice president of the Clinton Foundation and a member of the Mailman School of Public Health in Columbia. She finished her D.Phil at International
Chelsea Clinton is vice president of the Clinton Foundation and an instructor at the Mailman School of Public Health in Columbia. He completed his PhD in International Relations at Oxford University by examining the first decade of the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. She is also several children’s eBooks, adding the new York Times bestseller She Persisted: thirteen American women who changed the world, and co-book-from Gutsy Women and Grandma’s Gardens with her mother Hillary Clinton, and Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? with Devi Sridhar
Lawrence O. Gostin is a professor at Georgetown University and founder of the O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law. He heads the World Health Organization Centre in
Lawrence O. Gostin is a professor at Georgetown University and founder of the O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law. He heads the World Health Organization Centre on National and Global Health Law. Gostin is a professor at Georgetown University and a professor of public aptitude at Johns Hopkins University.