{"id":31409,"date":"2021-04-26T01:52:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T16:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/25\/in-the-fight-against-covid-have-we-been-inoculated-against-compassion"},"modified":"2021-04-26T01:52:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T16:52:34","slug":"in-the-fight-against-covid-have-we-been-inoculated-against-compassion-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31409","title":{"rendered":"In the fight against Covid, have we been inoculated against compassion? | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Mohga Kamal-Yanni <\/strong>says world leaders must stop putting big pharma\u2019s profits before people\u2019s lives. <strong>Sue Hoar <\/strong>wonders<strong> <\/strong>why more is not being done to help Covid patients in India<\/p>\n<p>The shortfall in Covid vaccine doses going to the Covax vaccine-sharing scheme is deeply worrying, and highlights a massive flaw in the plans to provide vaccines to developing countries (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/revealed-big-shortfall-in-covax-covid-vaccine-sharing-scheme\" title=\"\">Revealed: big shortfall in Covax Covid vaccine-sharing scheme<\/a>, 22 April).<\/p>\n<p>While Covax\u2019s target of vaccinating just 20% of people in developing countries by the end of the year was already far from sufficient, it is now a long way off even meeting the May target of distributing 187.2m doses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/25\/in-the-fight-against-covid-have-we-been-inoculated-against-compassion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Mohga Kamal-Yanni says world leaders must stop putting big pharma\u2019s profits before people\u2019s lives. Sue Hoar wonders why more is not being done to help Covid patients in IndiaThe shortfall in Covid vaccine doses going to the Covax vaccine-sharing sch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,346,62,1203,914,647,958,52,565,1406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-india","category-inequality","category-infectious-diseases","category-pharmaceuticals-industry","category-poverty","category-uk-news","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-trade-organization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31410,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31409\/revisions\/31410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}