{"id":37297,"date":"2021-02-03T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T18:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/?p=37297"},"modified":"2021-02-03T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T18:38:20","slug":"wcc-south-african-religious-leaders-join-campaign-to-push-us-government-to-address-global-vaccine-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wcc-south-african-religious-leaders-join-campaign-to-push-us-government-to-address-global-vaccine-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"WCC: South African religious leaders join campaign to push US government to address global vaccine shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/news\/south-african-religious-leaders-join-campaign-to-push-us-government-to-address-global-vaccine-shortage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Originally posted here by the World Council of Churches<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Religious leaders in South Africa signed a letter on behalf of The People\u2019s Vaccine Campaign Of South Africa that urges the US medical team leading the COVID-19 pandemic response to address the global vaccine shortage, and urges the US government to take specific actions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaccine shortages across South Africa and the Global South will lead to global disaster if access to a vaccine continues to be blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are writing to you as a collective of concerned civic organisations, workers formations, and individuals in South Africa,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cAs you aware, in our country like many others in the Global South, the COVID-19 epidemic is out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter points out that South Africa is going to receive a fraction of the vaccines it needs to bring the pandemic under control in the next month. \u201cPut simply, if nothing significantly changes, the COVID-19 epidemic will continue to ravage our country and other countries, virtually unabated, for the foreseeable future,\u201d reads the letter. \u201cThis dire shortage of vaccine supplies is not due to any inherent technological limitation in scaling up production, but rather a seemingly deliberate decision to not allow production scale up to what the global pandemic requires.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world now faces the very real possibility of not achieving global population immunity anytime soon, the letter continues. \u201cIt is clear we have no time to waste, as we understand that the longer it takes to vaccinate the entire world, the harder it will become to contain the virus,\u201d the text reads. \u201cWe are not alone in raising the alarm about this possibility and the \u2018moral catastrophe\u2019 this represents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/resources\/documents\/vaccine-access-in-south-africa-and-the-rest-of-global-south\"><strong>Read the full letter on Vaccine access in South Africa and the rest of Global South<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted here by the World Council of Churches Religious leaders in South Africa signed a letter on behalf of The People\u2019s Vaccine Campaign Of South Africa that urges the US medical team leading the COVID-19 pandemic response to address &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wcc-south-african-religious-leaders-join-campaign-to-push-us-government-to-address-global-vaccine-shortage\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[],"topic":[20271,20237],"region":[20007,20062],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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