Inequalities and Inequities During the Pandemic: Rich Nations Must Also Care for the Poor

Abstract

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

World Health Organization. WHO coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard. Accessed September 26, 2021. https://covid19.who.int.

Binns

Low

. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer: the inequality of COVID-19. Asia Pac J Public Health. 2021;33(2-3):185-187. doi:10.1177/10105395211001662.

UNICEF. How can we vaccinate the world? five challenges facing the UN-backed COVAX programme. Accessed September 29, 2021. https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/04/1088932.

World Health Organization. WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 4 August 2021. Accessed September 26, 2021. https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-4-august-2021.

Our World in Data. Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations. Accessed September 26, 2021. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=OWID_WRL.

United Nations. COVID-19 vaccine equality, ‘most pressing issue of our times’—UN chief. Accessed September 29, 2021. https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/08/1097202.

Corpuz

JCG

. Ensuring COVID-19 vaccines for low-income countries [published online ahead of print May 29, 2021]. J Public Health. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdab186.