IR 002: Lecture 23

Question 1

When was the plague the ravaged Athens?

Answer 1

430 BC

Question 2

What was the unilateral quarantine regime (1377-1851)

Answer 2

• Knowledge gap
• No cooperation among political entities
• Bubonic plague (14th century)

Question 3

What was the nascent sanitary conference regime (1851-1892)

Answer 3

• Created mechanisms to coordinate response to disease
• Efforts to improve health in European cities

Question 4

What is the hegemonic health cooperation (1926-now)?

Answer 4

• Health is a universal right
• 1948: Founding of the WHO
• Cold War

Question 5

Why was there more conversation about global health beginning in the 1960s?

Answer 5

Travel, Urbanization, Global Warming, etc.:
- Higher infection rates and speeds Pharmaceutical Multinationals and profits/ communication & information technology:
- More complex response mechanisms

Question 6

Why do leaders care less about global health issues?

Answer 6

• Global solidarity
• Self interest

Question 7

What was China’s initial response to the SARS outbreak in 2003?

Answer 7

• Hide the truth

Question 8

Why did China finally share what was going on with the SARS outbreak?

Answer 8

The US and WHO pressed Beijing to share more information and allow foreign health workers

Question 9

What was China’s initial response to the COVID-19 outbreak?

Answer 9

• Hide the truth
• Censorship
• Limited WHO’s access to Wuhan
• Massive Lockdowns
• Downplayed the number of infections

Question 10

What was China’s response as it began to recover from the COVID-19 outbreaks?

Answer 10

• China rushes to provide medical assistance abroad to counter the “China cover-up” narrative
• Exploit lack of US leadership

Question 11

How did the US blunder at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Answer 11

• Travel bans without consulting US allies
• Trump decided to leave the WHO
• Trump suggest that China instigated a global pandemic

Question 12

How did the US regain the upper hand during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Answer 12

• First country to develop a reliable vaccine
• Aggressive vaccination campaign
• Resumed cooperation with the WHO
• Chinas vaccines offered low protection
• Growing economic cost of Chinas zero covid policy
• Complaints about the quality of Chinas medical supplies

Question 13

What were the consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Global South?

Answer 13

• Only 3% of people in the Global South received the vaccine by 2021 compared to 60% in rich countries
  -Emergence of new COVID-19 variants
• Enduring school closures
• Cost for the global economy