April 08, 2021

Andrew Campbell 

The pandemic revealed the inequality health care system around the world; therefore, it provided a critical time for leaders around the world to adjust a better health care system to take care of everyone on the earth. This year the health officials of United Nations indicated that the major challenge is to invest in vaccine production and to equally access COVID-19 vaccines.

However, the equally distribution of vaccines is hard to achieve. At the beginning of the year, general-director of World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, requested to start vaccinating all health works within the first 100 days of 2021. Nevertheless, some health workers are still unvaccinated in some countries. Up to now, the most major task is to speed up the vaccine production and fairly distribute vaccines to all health workers. 

From a new report of World Health Organization, the latest confirmed COVID-19 cases were close to 132 million, which include 2.8 million death cases worldwide. According to the United Nations officials, about 604 million doses have been distributed but around half of them were in the wealthiest nations. 

Tedros indicated that this pandemic revealed the fragile global health care system. About half of the population did not have basic health care and around 100 million people cannot afford extra medical expenses. 

This pandemic is a global issue. Leaders around the world should take this as an opportunity to change rules and to ensure equality. 

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