A tale of two pandemics: the true cost of Covid in the global south

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Reconstruction after Covid: a new series of long reads While the rich nations focus on booster jabs and returning to the office, much of the world is facing devastating second-order coronavirus effects. Now is the time to build a fairer, more responsible international system for the future. By Kwame Anthony Appiah. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:03.1	From inequality to loneliness, the climate crisis to racial injustice.
1:07.2	COVID-19 has exposed just how broken our societies are.
1:11.2	Today, as we slowly begin our recovery, what can we do to rebuild a better world?
1:17.4	In 1921, the Guardian Editor's CP Scott,
1:20.4	commissioned John Maynard Keynes to curate a series of essays on the economic revival of post-war
1:25.4	Europe. That groundbreaking series, Reconstruction in Europe, included contributions from leading
1:31.3	economists, politicians and Nobel laureates, and Keynes himself.
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