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MEDICC Review 2020; 22 (2)

COVID-19 in the Americas: We Are in This Together

Language: English
References: 11
Page: 4-6
PDF size: 23.94 Kb.


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COVID-19 has upended the world’s healthcare infrastructures and its economies, casting a glaring light on the failings and flaws already in place, all suffered unequally. This has forced leaders and the public at large to face the stark contrast between human society as it exists and the society that is possible, with both the world’s majority and the planet leaping to the top of a new agenda...an agenda as urgently needed as a new vaccine.


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