THE WORLD FIGHTS FOR VACCINE

The world battles covid-19
If a Vaccine Arrives, Will the World Fight Over It?
Covid-19 has not been met, in every case, with the spirit of common interest. I read in  some tabloid last week that former US Deputy National Security Advisor Caroline Atkinson has written for Science, G20 leaders coordinated their response to the financial crash of 2008 and 2009, working jointly to stabilize the world economy, but amid Corona pandemic  they’ve done little, even as things like relief funding and collaborative medical research demand international teamwork. Someone also wrote for The World Politics Review last month, Covid-19 has prompted a series of export restrictions around the world, and the World Trade Organization has counted 80 countries limiting the export of masks and other protective equipment.

But jockeying over protective gear “will be a sideshow compared to the scramble over a vaccine” if scientists eventually produce one.  Vaccines will need to be doled out in an orderly fashion, production will need to be spread out across the world, and developing countries will need to get their share. Thanks to nationalist politics and the sorry state of fellow feeling, a squabble is more likely: Imagine if, in a year’s time, 300m doses of a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine have been manufactured in Donald Trump’s America, Xi Jinping’s China or Boris Johnson’s Britain.

Who is going to get them? What are the chances that a nurse in India, or a doctor in Brazil, let alone a bus driver in Uganda or a diabetic in Tanzania, will be given priority? The answer must be virtually nil!

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