GENEVA (AN) — One year on, the pandemic has prompted one of the most remarkable scientific efforts in history — and brought into sharper focus many of the world's inequities.
Since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the scientific community has rallied with the backing of governments, the United Nations and other international organizations and companies to seek a way out of a global health crisis that has killed 2.6 million people and infected 118 million, including 530 million in the United States alone.