Kai KupferschmidtMay 6, 2023

“One of the greatest tragedies of COVID-19 is that it didn’t have to be this way,” Tedros said. The tools to detect and respond to pandemics better are available. „But globally, a lack of coordination, a lack of equity and a lack of solidarity meant that those tools were not used as effectively as they could have been. Lives were lost that should not have been.”

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Show threadKate Nyhan is changing serversMay 6, 2023
@kakape
I don't get why he used the past tense. Lives are still being lost that should not be lost. Every person who hasn't been able to access vaccines, every person who has declined vaccination because of misinformation, every case of nosocomial COVID - does Tedros think that's all in the past?
Show threadCatchingmybreath
@kdnyhan @kakape our alternative universe 🤦🏼‍♀️
May 6, 2023 at 1:57pmWeb