WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REJECTS CHINA's ZERO COVID STRATEGY 

ZERO COVID STRATEGY 

WHAT IS ZERO COVID STRATEGY

A zero-COVID strategy is divided into two phases: an initial suppression phase in which the virus is eradicated locally through aggressive public health measures, and a sustained containment phase in which normal economic and social activities resume and public health measures are used to contain new outbreaks before they spread widely.

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As the white house marks one million Covid deaths,  China is doubling down on its zero Covid strategies that have forced millions to stay isolated in their homes. The head of the world health organization says that china's zero coveted strategies were not sustainable. Now in response, china's foreign ministry is calling those remarks irresponsible and taking them off social media.

Zero COVID Strategy

Lawrence Gaston who is a professor at Georgetown University and founding O’Neill chair in global health law as well as the director of the world health organization's collaborating center on national and global health law denies China s strategy and declares it Non-Sustainable. He added that it's not sustainable, I don't think anyone in my field would think it's sustainable. You have to remember that this Virus in terms of Omicron and its sub-variants is so incredibly contagious that eventually most if not everybody will get it including in China. It’s almost as contagious as “MEASLES”. If you put 10 people in a room with Measles for an hour, Eight of them will be infected with measles and so it’s not sustainable at all. China isn’t a big problem because they don’t have a good vaccine, the elderly haven’t been vaccinated and they have an inferior vaccine as compared to the m-RNA vaccines we have available in the West. So that’s the perfect storm for a really big outbreak in China and a big economic and social and health problem.

Zero Covid Strategy is not Sustainable 

The world health organization has called on Pfizer to make its Covid anti-viral pill more widely available in poorer countries as vaccination rates in less developing countries are also lagging as compared to wealthier countries.  

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WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO BRIDGE ALL THESE DISPARITIES 

Professor Lawrence Gaston Said That “We’re seeing an exact repeat of the unconscionable gaps between the rich and poor as we've been through this with AIDS and now we’ve been through it now with COVID vaccines and now we've got to do something for both vaccinations and therapeutics. It has been more than two years and the vaccination rates are quite low in many parts of the World particularly Sub Saharan Africa Pfizer and other companies have to waive their intellectual property rights and they have to transfer their technologies to lower-income countries so they can make generic versions cheap and accessible to the whole world. We're in a pandemic remember we need to make that happen to save our global community. 

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