From WSJopinion: Even more than developed nations, the world’s poor will need faster economic growth to recover from the pandemic, writes wrmead
The pandemic may have peaked in many countries, but for much of the world the worst is yet to come.
Despite hopes that warmer temperatures would slow Covid-19’s spread in the Global South, the disease is spreading with relentless speed in countries like Kenya and Brazil. The strategies that have limited and slowed the virus in the Global North won’t work for the most part in the South. Without a vaccine or treatments, the people living there will be almost as powerless before the disease as humanity once was against smallpox.
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