[ccebook.cn]The World in 2010

affluent countries will have reserved most of the year’s output well in advance. Many
will have enough to cover their entire population. For the rest of the world, vaccine
donations totalling 200m doses, secured by the WHO, will barely be sufficient to
protect health workers.
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Above all, a truly global event like this one will reveal, in a highly visible way, the consequences of decades of
failure to invest adequately in basic health services and infrastructures in the developing world. The same
virus that causes manageable disruption in affluent countries will have a devastating impact in countries with
too few health facilities and staff, no regular supplies of essential medicines, little diagnostic and laboratory
capacity, and vast populations with no access to safe water and sanitation.
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