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For the past half century, successive US governments have championed free trade. But do they practice what they preach?
We found most governments were ill-prepared, too slow to act, paid too little attention to the most vulnerable, and were hampered by low public trust and an epidemic of misinformation.
How two Canadian teams of economists and epidemiologists studied COVID-19 from a social science perspective to show that higher national income inequality is associated with worse COVID outcomes.
In places with low vaccination rates, COVID-19 has the chance to linger, and variants develop and travel. Without global vaccine equity, this entirely predictable pattern will repeat itself.
The new variant is a warning: unless we take urgent action to correct global vaccine inequities, we risk the emergence of further variants, some of which may evade vaccines.
The effectiveness of vaccination as a public health strategy will continue to be compromised while large numbers of the global community remain unvaccinated.
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Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University
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Professor, English and Cultural Studies; Director, Centre for Global Peace, Justice and Health, McMaster University
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Assistant Professor in Development Studies, University of Cambridge
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Canada Research Chair in Aging & Immunity, McMaster University
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Emeritus Professor of Economics, Western University
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Director Centre > Health Equity in Regional and Remote Communities, CQUniversity Australia
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Deputy Director, Burnet Institute, Adjunct Professor, Monash University, Burnet Institute
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John Thwaites is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Associate Fellow (National Institute on Ageing), Toronto Metropolitan University
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PhD candidate, La Trobe University and Unit Head, Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Distinguished Research Chair, Globalization and Health Equity, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Director, BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney