An estimated 115 000 healthcare workers around the world have died from covid-19 so far, said senior WHO officials on 21 October as they called for governments to better protect such workers.1 If surplus vaccines stored by wealthier nations are not expedited to vulnerable healthcare professionals abroad their death toll will continue to grow by the thousand, WHO warned, adding to a looming healthcare crisis due to a global shortage of healthcare professionals. “It’s a moral catastrophe of historic proportions that will shock future generations,” said Gordon Brown, former UK prime minister and WHO’s ambassador for global health financing. Global vaccine inequities mean that many healthcare workers in the global south have not yet received a first or second dose of a covid-19 vaccine, while booster shots are being rolled out to the general population in the global north. Rich nations have promised to donate vaccines to poorer ones but have failed to deliver, said Brown. Only two in five health and …

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Covid-19：用疫苗保护医护人员，在全球 115 000 人死亡后敦促世卫组织

世卫组织高级官员在 10 月 21 日呼吁各国政府更好地保护这些工作人员时表示，迄今为止，全球估计有 115 000 名医护人员死于 covid-19。1 如果富裕国家储存的剩余疫苗不能迅速用于脆弱的医疗保健世卫组织警告说，海外专业人士的死亡人数将继续增加数千人，这加剧了由于全球医疗保健专业人员短缺而迫在眉睫的医疗危机。“这是一场具有历史意义的道德灾难，将震惊后代，”英国前首相兼世卫组织全球卫生筹资大使戈登·布朗说。全球疫苗不公平意味着全球南部的许多医护人员尚未接种第一剂或第二剂 covid-19 疫苗，同时，正在向全球北部的一般人群推出加强注射。布朗说，富裕国家已承诺向较贫穷国家捐赠疫苗，但未能交付。只有五分之二的健康和……