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Biden’s US pins its hopes on COVID-19 for global image
May 10, 2021The COVID-19 crisis has probably been the most significant and consequential public health crisis the world has faced in the past century. Since the 1917 Spanish flu, this is the first time that the world has dealt a crisis of such magnitude.
The COVID-19 crisis has probably been the most significant and consequential public health crisis the world has faced in the past century. Since the 1917 Spanish flu, this is the first time that the world has dealt a crisis of such magnitude.
It has made the world stop functioning as it used to for a year and counting, and the spread of the disease to other parts of the world and the emergence of new waves of the outbreak demonstrate that the pandemic is here to stay until the countries vaccinate their population.
The pandemic’s impact on the world economies is also here to stay for years. Last week, the CEO of American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Moderna underlined the fact that the virus is not going away as many had hoped.
Historically, disease outbreaks, whether cholera or the plague, for example, always had transformative effects on countries. COVID-19 has also started to demonstrate the changes it can generate in individual countries and the idea of business as usual in international relations.
From the very onset of the disease, there were different questions in regards to the potential implications of the disease on the politics of the countries.
Reflections on America
This debate was particularly vivid in the United States. This was partly because 2020 was an election year in the U.S. and partly because the country was the nonstop epicenter of the pandemic starting from April 2020 to the end of the year.
For the domestic politics in the U.S., th
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