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The Covid-19 pandemic has driven nearly 37 million people into extreme poverty and reversed two decades of progress in vaccinating children against once-common childhood diseases, The Wall Street Journal writes, citing a new report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The number of people living in extreme poverty globally has risen 7.1% so far this year in the pandemic. The pandemic has also pushed the percentage of children who are vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis down to the level it was last at in 2000
Separately, Bill Gates is dumbfounded by the U.S. response to Covid-19. “You know, this has been a mismanaged situation every step of the way,” he told STAT. “It’s shocking. It’s unbelievable. The fact that we would be among the worst in the world.” He cited the bungled launch of Covid-19 testing, the enlisting of a neuroradiologist, rather than an epidemiologist or infectious diseases specialist, to help guide the White House response, and a recent move to discourage testing of people who were in contact with a known case but are not yet showing symptoms.
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