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COVAX: Why Biden's billions won't fix Covid vaccine inequality worldwide
NBC News / Comcast ^ | February 26, 2021 | By Alexander Smith

Posted on 02/26/2021 12:18:57 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

LONDON — It seemed like a windfall in the campaign to vaccinate the world.

President Joe Biden last week announced $4 billion for a humanitarian program called COVAX — short for Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access plan — which aims to fairly distribute vaccines between rich countries and the developing world.

But in more than a dozen interviews, current and former officials involved with COVAX and experts with detailed knowledge of the plan suggest Biden's mountains of cash and rhetorical support will not address the real reasons behind the dire state of global vaccine inequality.

Some critics say Biden is repeating some of the same moves: pledging money and words to COVAX, but with the other hand grabbing the scarce supplies that it desperately needs.

"There is a sense that we've made some progress, from the U.S. giving no vaccines at all to it giving $4 billion — but that doesn't go far enough," Sharifah Sekalala, an associate professor of global health law at England's University of Warwick, said. "We need to reframe this entire discussion. What will help Americans the most is not vaccinating every American first."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; globalism; vaccine; virus
MAGA vaccines.
1 posted on 02/26/2021 12:18:57 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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.... As it stands, parts of Africa, South America and Asia will not achieve widespread immunization until 2023 at the earliest ...


2 posted on 02/26/2021 12:20:42 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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They HATE America, HATE MAGA, HATE Trump, HATE white people. But by God “you better give us money you filthy racist capitalist pigs.”


3 posted on 02/26/2021 12:38:16 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump Vaccines.


4 posted on 02/26/2021 12:39:26 PM PST by Ragnar54 (Obama replaced Osama as America's worst enemy and Al Qaeda's financier)
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Don’t need widespread vaccination if herd immunity is achieved the natural way.


5 posted on 02/26/2021 12:40:25 PM PST by gunnut
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What will help Americans the most is not vaccinating every American first.”

That’s funny. IT seems that England feels that what will help England the most is vaccinating every Englishman first. But not for Americans, eh?

Do these people ever stop to realize how stupid they sound?


6 posted on 02/26/2021 1:04:21 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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Wow! Now we’re responsible for global inequality.


7 posted on 02/26/2021 1:04:59 PM PST by Renkluaf
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” As it stands, parts of Africa, South America and Asia will not achieve widespread immunization until 2023 at the earliest ...”

Which is why in some poor African countries the newer Covids which are easier to transmit or catch and maybe less dangerous are being called God’s Vaccinations.


8 posted on 02/26/2021 1:09:23 PM PST by Grampa Dave (History, as we know it, is written by the winners not losers! Who is rewriting our history, now????)
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“Biden’s billions?!” How did he get that rich, by working overtime at the car wash?


9 posted on 02/26/2021 1:24:14 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Biden’s billions?!” How did he get that rich, by working overtime at the car wash?


Hunter’s stash.


10 posted on 02/26/2021 2:16:10 PM PST by pluvmantelo (Pallets of bricks for the street thugs, pallets of ballots for the suite thugs)
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COVAX?

Ernie

"Biden would be hilarious if his jokes weren't always on America."

11 posted on 02/27/2021 10:03:02 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (Lets all live in fear and destroy our economy for a bug with a 99% plus survival rate. Duh.)
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