‘No One in the World Is Safe Until Everybody’s Safe.’ Why a Globally Accessible Vaccine Is Crucial to Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic
“No one in the world is safe until everybody’s safe,” Okonjo-Iweala said during a a TIME 100 Talks discussion on finding hope in the midst of the pandemic. “No country is safe until every country is safe,” she says, regardless of their economic standing.
Partnership is something Okonjo-Iweala knows well. GAVI works with the World Health Organization , UNICEF, the World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other partners to increase access to vaccines for children living in underserved nations.
Part of that effort will also have to focus on reducing fears about vaccination, Okonjo-Iweala acknowledged. Anti-vaccine sentiment was—and threatening public health—even before the COVID-19 pandemic, but fear and uncertainty around the unknown virus is likely to give it new vitriol.
Getting large swaths of the world’s population vaccinated is as much an economic concern as a health one, Okonjo-Iweala says, since the economy cannot truly recover while an infectious disease remains a major global concern. For that reason, she adds, countries should not rush toAnd when they do, Okonjo-Iweala says they should take the opportunity to rebuild better than before, with an eye toward environmental sustainability, economic equality and global cooperation.
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