US Should Vaccinate Its Own Before Sharing Vaccines
Betsy McCaughey - Posted: Jan 27, 2021 12:01 AM
On Thursday, Anthony Fauci informed the World Health Organization that the Biden administration will participate in WHO's vaccine-sharing project. That reverses President Donald Trump's "America First" approach. Fauci says the goal is to ensure "equitable access" to vaccines for all countries in the world, rich and poor alike.
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The vaccine sharing project, with the acronym COVAX, raises money to buy vaccines for poor countries and asks the wealthier countries to donate actual doses. The COVAX dose-sharing principles, released Dec. 18, are causing controversy in France, England, Canada and other countries struggling to get their own populations vaccinated. COVAX wants countries to share their doses as they receive them, rather than waiting to see what's leftover. So far, Norway has agreed.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it's unfair for younger, healthy adults in countries like the U.S. to get injections before the frail and elderly in poor countries. He calls it a "catastrophic moral failure."
The day after inauguration:
Fauci Pledges U.S. Covax Support in Re-Engagement With WHO
By Corinne Gretler, Thomas Mulier, and James Paton
January 21, 2021, 4:22 AM EST
“Antony Blinken, Biden’s choice for secretary of state, said earlier this week that a U.S. rift with WHO may be healing and that the U.S. was preparing to join Covax, the program led by the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.”
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Gates Foundation pledged US$ 750 million to set up Gavi in 1999.
The Foundation is a key Gavi partner in vaccine market shaping.
https://www.gavi.org/operating-model/gavis-partnership-model/bill-melinda-gates-foundation
haffast wrote: “On Thursday, Anthony Fauci informed the World Health Organization that the Biden administration will participate in WHO’s vaccine-sharing project. That reverses President Donald Trump’s “America First” approach. Fauci says the goal is to ensure “equitable access” to vaccines for all countries in the world, rich and poor alike.”
All I can say is that I hope Biden continues with stupid policies like this. The backlash in the 2022 elections will propel a redwave like nothing before. Try explaining why Americans can’t get their vaccine before those in the third world.