Is there a case for a global COVID-19 Marshall Plan? /
This case study questions the disjointed responses and failures to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. As a result of partial measures and inequality in access to vaccines, COVID-19 has continued to spread and mutate. Mutations have become more contagious and have reduced vaccine effica...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals,
2023.
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| Series: | SAGE business cases.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This case study questions the disjointed responses and failures to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. As a result of partial measures and inequality in access to vaccines, COVID-19 has continued to spread and mutate. Mutations have become more contagious and have reduced vaccine efficacy globally. After World War II, through the Marshall Plan and related programs around the world, the United States successfully distributed aid to rebuild economies and achieve humanitarian and national security objectives at a cost of about $170 billion in today's dollars. Vaccinating every eligible human on earth would likely be less expensive and could likewise achieve humanitarian, economic, and national security benefits. This case asks students to consider whether wealthy countries could and should create a global response like the Marshall Plan to vaccinate enough people to approach global herd immunity and what the incentives are for wealthy countries to fund such a plan. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781071912461 1071912461 |