COVID-19 is an international scourge of misery, pain, and trauma… The disease is the very definition of a global problem: it doesn’t respect borders, spreads on human contact, and turns airplanes, trains, and automobiles into carriers of the contagion. Yet despite the speed with which the coronavirus has levelled the world economy and shuttered some of its largest cities for weeks on end, the United Nations…is twiddling its thumbs.
