Posted on 12/16/2020 5:31:34 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
LONDON - Lost among the jubilation of America's vaccine rollout this week is an uncomfortable reality: The world's poorest countries will have to wait months and possibly years to see any doses at all.
The U.S., Canada, Britain and the European Union have pre-ordered enough Covid-19 shots to inoculate their populations several times over, subject to regulatory approvals.
"Higher income countries like the U.S. and the U.K. are putting themselves at the front of the line - that's obviously what's happening," Philip Clarke, a professor of health economics at the University of Oxford, said. "The clear failure here is not having stronger international institutions and stronger funding to pay for a vaccine globally."
One of these institutions is COVAX, led by the World Health Organization, whose aim is to stop this exact thing from happening. It has raised $2 billion from dozens of countries and international organizations, and wants to provide 1 billion shots to poor countries next year.
It was undermined from the start, supporters say, after President Donald Trump declined to give the scheme any backing. Russia is the only other major economy to opt out.
COVAX says it's still $4.3 billion short of the cash it needs. And many experts are now skeptical it will ever provide the developing world with the necessary protection.
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So says Bill and Melinda “Gates of Hell”; oh, yeah, so says the Gates couple who wants to euthanize half the planet.
Hey, Bill! Knock it off! The ones that will die are the colored folks that you so hate that you want to abort them all! What’s the problem?
But according to there own health reporting they are not getting any new cases. It is all about the cases. Why send it to countries that are not getting covid?
Meh. I’m not taking it anyway. They can have mine.
I wonder if the function of this kind of story is to increase our respect for the vaccines. The ol’ scarcity card.
It’s all a ploy, make us think there isn’t enough to go around.
I would like to see our Congress get the shots first and tell us how it is.
Aren’t most of these poor countries ruled by corrupt socialists just like we are now? Our turn will come next.
They can have ours. We won’t be needing them.
Since every culture is ‘equal’ those poor countries have equal opportunity to make their own vaccine...
and Im sure their more intelligent citizens have been working hard on the most wonderful vaccine in the world...
Any day mow...
after all if the evil Americans can do it the third world countries can do better...
You mean the people who MADE the vaccine are being ‘a-holes” for vaccinating their own people.
The nerve of them...
//sarc
Sssh....They dont have new cases because we do not give them test kits. We really don’t want them to find out they are third world....
//Again...sarcasm.
Ah. . . didn’t we pay for the development/manufacture of said vaccine?
Most of those poor countries hate the U.S. and would like to see us all dead.
Not my problem.
“Covid-19 vaccines are being hoarded by rich countries — poor ones are missing out”
This is typical leftist claptrap. Did the vaccine just happen? Did we just look in a warehouse and find crates of vaccines? Of course not.
The vaccine is available today because of President Trump’s warp speed initiative. It would never be available if third world nations had to come up with the vaccine. Finally, when has the US ever failed to make charitable contributions to others?
Due to President Trump, we have the vaccine now, not a year from now. Due to our technology, a vaccine was developed and produced. We should take care of American citizens first, as President Trump has said, then move on to taking care of others.
America, and President Trump, are the heroes of this story. Thank God for America. A better headline would be “President Trump saves the world.”
“Meh. I’m not taking it anyway. They can have mine.”
Me either.
I refuse to be a test subject for the latest wonder drug. I remember Thalidomide! Get back to me in 10 years.
“Higher income countries like the U.S. and the U.K. are putting themselves at the front of the line - that’s obviously what’s happening,” Philip Clarke,“
Yea, well we payed for it, Skippy.
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Why cry for the people in “poor countries”?
Aren’t they being saved by their access to Hydroxychloquin?
Sucks to be third world!
Drone the Gates compound. Call it a gas leak. Jus offerin’ suggestions. It worked on al-baghdadi.
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