COVID RESPONSE IN PERU AND ARGENTINA: Dysfunctional Healthcare Systems and Management

October 12, 2020 1 Comment

Recently, the Institute for the Advanced Studies of the Americas (https://mia.as.miami.edu/) at the University of Miami held a revealing webinar with the participation and cogent presentations of former ministers of health of Peru and Argentina. The two ex-ministers know the internal weakness of the healthcare systems in their countries, and themselves had participated in attempts to make reforms.

There are several takeaways from the event:

  • Both Peru and Argentina have the highest rates of infection in Latin America along with Brazil.
  • Before even the COVID pandemic hit Peru and Argentine, the healthcare systems were dysfunctional and inaccessible.
  • Peru was late in acquiring internationally a low cost testing kit that failed and, therefore, the people didn’t know if they had COVID. Argentina was late in organizing testing.
  • The underlying situation in Argentina and Peru was one of great income, social and regional inequality that had the effect of separating a large share of the population from good healthcare and protection from the COVID.

Filed under COVID-19, International

8,000 Jumbo Jets to Deliver COVID Vaccine

September 10, 2020 Leave a comment

Shipping a coronavirus vaccine around the world will be the “largest transport challenge ever” according to the airline industry. The equivalent of 8,000 Boeing 747s will be needed, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said.

Covid vaccine: 8,000 jumbo jets needed to deliver doses globally, says IATA – BBC News

Filed under COVID-19, International, Transportation

IN SHORT “THE PRESIDENT IS A JERK”

July 29, 2020 Leave a comment

QUOTE FROM EX-SEN CLAIRE MCCASKILL (MO) ON MORNING JOE (MSNBC)

THE PRESIDENT SAYS IF THE WE GAVE ARMS TO THE TALIBAN THEN IT’S OK THAT RUSSIA GIVES ARMS TO THE TALIBAN.

PRESIDENT MUST HAVE A FINANCIAL INTEREST IN hydroxychoroquine

Filed under International

Basic Economics of Trade Agreements (Krugman)

July 1, 2011 Leave a comment

The case for free trade is about microeconomics, about raising efficiency. There’s no particular reason to think that trade liberalization is good for fixing problems of inadequate demand. I mean, you learn in Econ 101 that aggregate spending is Y = C+I+G+X-M; that is, consumer spending, plus investment spending, plus government purchases, plus exports, minus imports. Trade liberalization raises X, but it also raises M. For any individual county it can go either way; for the world as a whole it’s a wash, since total exports equal total imports.

via Wrong To Be Right – NYTimes.com.

Filed under Business and Commerce, Economy, International

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