Exactly right. This is what should have been done since the six weeks of “flatten the curve” and “slow the spread” ended last April. Their entire statement is worth a read.
Oncologist Dr. Zeke Emanuel, one of 10 advisory board members named to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force, has pushed the U.S. and other countries to not hoard a coronavirus vaccine.
Emanuel, who served as a key architect of the Affordable Care Act under the Obama administration, co-authored a paper in September in which he encouraged officials to follow the “Fair Priority Model,” which calls for a “fair international distribution of vaccine,” rather than what he and his co-authors characterized as “vaccine nationalism.”
The Trump administration had said that the U.S. will share any coronavirus vaccine it develops with other countries after American needs are met and that the U.S. will not coordinate with the World Health Organization (WHO) on distribution.
“Our first priority of course is to develop and produce enough quantity of safe and effective FDA-approved vaccines and therapeutics for use in the United States,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said during an August visit to Taiwan.
“But we anticipate having capacity that, once those needs are satisfied, those products would be available in the world community according to fair and equitable distributions that we would consult in the international community on,” Azar said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-coronavirus-adviser-emanuel-vaccine-distribution
Emanuel was the lead author of an article published on September 11, 2020 entitled “An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation.” Emanuel embraced a so-called “Fair Priority Model” to achieve “distributive justice” in deciding who should have priority in receiving a vaccine. Emanuel’s idea of “distributive justice” would put people who have long life expectancies at the head of the line for a vaccine – in front of first responders, health care workers, and the elderly who are most at risk to die from the disease.
In another article published around the same time, Ezekiel suggested that vaccines should be allocated to reduce COVID-19 disparities “commonly produced by racism.” He added, “Disparities could be further reduced by avoiding prioritization strategies, such as age-based preference, that risk widening racial and socioeconomic disparities.”