The Covid-19 crisis shows the bravery and selflessness of health-care workers, and the contrast with places like Syria, where doctors have been targeted with violence and where hospitals have been bombed | Kelly Razzouk and Amanda Catanzano for CNNOpinion
Kelly Razzouk is the director of policy and advocacy for the International Rescue Committee, focusing on the United Nations. Amanda Catanzo is the International Rescue Committee's senior director for international programs policy and advocacy. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. View more opinion at CNN.
Covid-19 has brought into sharp focus the bravery and selflessness of health-care workers who -- at great risk to their own health -- are on the front lines of this once-in-a-hundred-years pandemic, celebrated with nightly cheers ringing from Manhattan to Milan. It has also laid bare the contrast with decimated health systems in places like Syria, where doctors have, for far too long, been targeted with violence and where hospitals have been bombed.Kelly RazzoukAmanda CatanzanoThe truth of this pandemic is that it cannot be defeated anywhere unless it is defeated everywhere.
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