In a content we shared with you recently, we mentioned that the pharmaceutical company Merck has developed a special drug for COVID-19 and this drug has been submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use approval. The World Health Organization (WHO), which made a statement for the drug that Merck went into mass production without even waiting for the results from the FDA, said that this was an important development and could be a new weapon against the virus.
Statements on the subject were made by WHO Spokesperson Christian Lindmeier. “This is definitely an interesting development. We would like to see all the data about the drug. If it turns out to be true, it will be a new weapon in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic,” Lindmeier said, giving hope to the whole world for the COVID-19 pill.
Green to drug, red to booster dose
Commenting on the agenda, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made a remarkable statement. Ghebreyesus, who strongly opposed the third booster dose application of many countries, found this decision taken by the rich states to be unfair and stated that the booster doses should be stopped. “Starting boosters is really the worst thing we can do as a global community. It’s also unfair,” Ghebreyesus said.
The reason Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus talks this way is because the vaccine is not equally available in all countries. In this context, Ghebreyesus stated that at least 50 percent of the populations of countries in Europe, America, Asia and Oceania were administered 1 dose of vaccine, and that this rate remained at 7 percent in African countries. Hearing these explanations, one inevitably asks, “Why don’t you provide financing?” asks the question. The World Health Organization may well provide this funding. So much so that the organization had a budget of 5 billion 623 million 603 thousand dollars in the 2018-2019 period, that is, before the pandemic. . .
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