RIAC, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International Studies at Fudan University Report #78 / 2022
RIAC, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International Studies at Fudan University Report #78 / 2022
The eighth annual report by the Russian International Affairs Council, the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of International Studies at Fudan...
... most notably its weaknesses in mustering a coordinated response to the global economic downturn
Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.
Carl Jung
The multiplicity of country models of dealing with the pandemic, the “vaccine competition”, the breaking up of global value chains and their nationalization and regionalization all point in the direction of greater localization and self-sufficiency. At the same time there is a need from greater synchronicity across countries ...
..., gave a concise account of the relevant lessons learned from earlier pandemics:
International humanitarian law has to be enhanced and enforced properly to protect civilians, especially in conflict zones.
Health assistance and protection (including vaccines) must be available to all.
The response must go far beyond health needs and mitigate the widest range of secondary impacts of pandemics.
No one is safe from a pandemic until everyone is safe; the responses must reach the most vulnerable people ...
...
vaccination tracker
suggests.
The future seems to be looking even grimmer when we take into account that the EU has a target of vaccinating 70% of its population by the end of August 2021, in addition to the widely publicised political issues and shortage of vaccines in the bloc.
It is clear that the EU is going to have a serious problem with vaccines supply, as Pfizer-BioNTech have
announced
temporarily halting the deliveries and AstraZeneca
informed
of reduction of the previously agreed supplies to the ...
... available. Life strategies of pathogens causing acute infections are not designed to fight an immune response – they either leave their host before the defence mechanisms function or they cause its death. For this reason, it is easier to develop vaccines against such pathogens and they are more efficient than vaccines against pathogens causing chronic infections. Epidemiological surveillance of such infections is more straightforward as they have a short incubation period coupled with acute symptoms....
