Humanity is not ready to fight the next pandemic – attitude to the coronavirus epidemic shows that people will not be able to establish world-wide mechanisms to combat infectious disease and overcome the sake of this inequality. This is reported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation report, reports The Independent.
“in a globalized world, where trade is constantly going through the borders, rich countries are not enough to simply provide themselves with everything necessary against viruses,” said in the report.
Document denounces vaccine inequality from a moral point of view: in developed countries, intensified up to 80 percent of the population, in some poor – only about one percent. Moreover, Africa received 48 million doses of vaccine, California – 42 million, although the population of this state is 30 times less than in the Black Continent.
Earlier it was reported that the Gates Foundation has invested more than 70 million dollars in the creation of new antiviral tablets for the treatment of coronavirus and prevent pandemics in the future.