Category COVID-19 Studies

The Canadian Progressive’s coverage of studies and reports on the global COVID-19 pandemic from the world’s leading health experts and organizations.

Canada delivered only 3.2m of the 40m COVID-19 doses it pledged to poor countries

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a supposedly caring and compassionate "world leader", has so far delivered only 3.2 million (8%) of the 40 million life-saving COVID-19 doses Canada pledged to Africa and other poor regions of the Global South with overwhelming BIPOC (Black people, Indigenous people, People of Colour) majorities, according to a damning report released this week by the People’s Vaccine Alliance.
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COVID-19 was a “preventable disaster” that became a pandemic thanks to lack “global political leadership”: WHO report

COVID-19 was a "preventable disaster" that became a pandemic due a lack "global political leadership," according to a recent report issued by a WHO-appointed high-level panel co-chaired by former Liberian President Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Laureate and Africa’s first democratically elected female head of state, and Helen Clark, the former prime minister of New Zealand.
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