That is 500 MILLION doses paid for by the American tax payer. Maybe the media in oil rich countries might want to direct their criticism at their own who are price gouging oil to make up for lost profits from COVID-19. Let them BUY the vaccines for their own and poor neighbor nations.
There is not an unlimited supply of vaccine. The USA is willing to help, and as a wealthy nation should help. The USA should not be required to vaccinate the entire world at the expense of American taxpayers.
I forget how many doses that the Trump administration* donated to poor nations. Hmmm. Perhaps I should rephrase that as a question. How many doses would the Trump administration* (part 2) have donated to poor nations if re-elected?
The dust from the G7 summit has settled and big statements have been made: the leaders of the world’s richest democracies have set the target of ending the pandemic by the close of 2022.
The question is whether their actions match their words. The G7 nations have pledged 1 billion vaccine doses to lower-income nations, but it’s estimated that 11 billion will be needed to raise global immunity levels sufficiently to suppress the coronavirus.
Sharing leftover vaccines is an unsustainable model, dependent on the whim of individual countries. Covax, the vaccine-sharing initiative, has already shown how donations-based distribution can fall apart. If a donor country suddenly finds itself in need of more vaccine doses, its donations will simply dry up.
A better solution would be to bolster the production of vaccine doses by lower-income countries themselves, by waiving intellectual property protection on the vaccines and transferring the necessary technology and know-how from richer countries to poorer ones.
This would be difficult but not impossible. Sizable investment would be needed to develop production capacity in countries in Africa, for example. But perhaps the greatest resource needed would be time. Building production capacity might not happen quickly enough to help end the pandemic. But if done now, it could help quash the next one before it gets going.
Durak Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Can we do better? Yes, we can. Will we do better? Yes, we will.
ncorgbl almost 3 years ago
That is 500 MILLION doses paid for by the American tax payer. Maybe the media in oil rich countries might want to direct their criticism at their own who are price gouging oil to make up for lost profits from COVID-19. Let them BUY the vaccines for their own and poor neighbor nations.
GiantShetlandPony almost 3 years ago
There is not an unlimited supply of vaccine. The USA is willing to help, and as a wealthy nation should help. The USA should not be required to vaccinate the entire world at the expense of American taxpayers.
A# 466 almost 3 years ago
I forget how many doses that the Trump administration* donated to poor nations. Hmmm. Perhaps I should rephrase that as a question. How many doses would the Trump administration* (part 2) have donated to poor nations if re-elected?
briangj2 almost 3 years ago
The dust from the G7 summit has settled and big statements have been made: the leaders of the world’s richest democracies have set the target of ending the pandemic by the close of 2022.
The question is whether their actions match their words. The G7 nations have pledged 1 billion vaccine doses to lower-income nations, but it’s estimated that 11 billion will be needed to raise global immunity levels sufficiently to suppress the coronavirus.
Sharing leftover vaccines is an unsustainable model, dependent on the whim of individual countries. Covax, the vaccine-sharing initiative, has already shown how donations-based distribution can fall apart. If a donor country suddenly finds itself in need of more vaccine doses, its donations will simply dry up.
A better solution would be to bolster the production of vaccine doses by lower-income countries themselves, by waiving intellectual property protection on the vaccines and transferring the necessary technology and know-how from richer countries to poorer ones.
This would be difficult but not impossible. Sizable investment would be needed to develop production capacity in countries in Africa, for example. But perhaps the greatest resource needed would be time. Building production capacity might not happen quickly enough to help end the pandemic. But if done now, it could help quash the next one before it gets going.
https://theconversation.com/covid-vaccine-weekly-g7-donations-unlikely-to-bring-pandemic-to-an-end-by-2022-163096
ferddo almost 3 years ago
Their appreciation sure makes one want to donate again… /s