Dear Colleagues,

It’s been yet another eventful week in the world, including for “global health”. Sri Lanka was the first domino to fall among the   “perfect storm countries” the UN has been warning for and it won’t be the last. On Tuesday, Dr Tedros pointed out that China’s zero-Covid policy is  not sustainable, a public statement quite remarkable in itself –  and clearly, the Chinese government thought so too. Bill Gates tested positive for Covid, in the same week North-Korea at last spotted Covid.  And by now only Tony Blair and Klaus Schwab haven’t showed up in Kiev, it seems.

Yesterday (on May 12), Joe Biden hosted his second Global COVID-19 Summit. More or less coming empty-handed to his own summit, it remains just remarkable how easy it seems to let defense billions flow (even the US Congress then magically becomes sort of a ‘harmonious society’ – well except Rand Paul perhaps ), whereas the opposite seems true when it comes to dealing with a global pandemic and...