Posted on 12/13/2021 11:09:21 AM PST by nickcarraway
As of December 9, 2021, more than 8.1 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. However, most of those have gone to people who live in the world’s high income countries.
As of December 8, 2021, 64.94% of the population of those countries have received at least one vaccine dose. In low income countries, this figure is just 8.35%.
In addition to the logistical challenge of getting vaccines to those who need them, the cost of purchasing them in the first place is the most significant barrier to addressing vaccine inequity.
To get a sufficient number of people vaccinated, experts estimate that poorer countries would have to increase their healthcare spending by 56.6%, while wealthier countries would only need to increase theirs by 0.8%.
In a LinkedIn plea urging corporate boards and investors to do more to persuade their companies to address vaccine inequity, Dr. Peter SingerTrusted Source — special advisor to the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) — puts it starkly:
“Every week, around 50,000 people die of COVID-19. Presumably, most were unvaccinated and didn’t have to die. Without speedy vaccination of the world, millions more will die.”
Dr. Singer adds that doing better is not “just about stopping COVID-19, it’s about keeping everyone safe from the next variant and the next pandemic.”
“It’s also about addressing the underlying structural injustices that perpetuate inequity.”
A vaccine tax A new paper by Dr. Andreas Brøgger Albertsen, Ph.D. — of Aarhus University in Denmark — proposes a means of more equitably distributing the cost of the world’s vaccines among governments.
Dr. Albertsen suggests that a progressive vaccine “tax” could be included in the cost of vaccines based on a purchasing nation’s ability to pay.
He notes in his paper that the tax would provide a more workable solution than vaccine equity strategies often discuss. One of the most common of these ideas is that wealthier countries could divert foreign aid funds to vaccinations.
Dr. Albertsen cites two problems with this approach. First, “using [existing] foreign aid to provide vaccines would effectively reduce the amount of assistance given for non-vaccine purposes.” Second, if only some countries increase foreign aid, the financial burden of vaccine equity will be neither evenly nor fairly shared.
The paper appears in the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics.
Babylon Bee, right?
Tax Man,,
Hey I got your “Global vaccine” right here.
How about adverse reaction equity. How do we make everyone equally dead?
This is getting ridiculous. . .and then I just saw this
https://basedunderground.com/2021/12/13/covid-vaccines-prevent-recipients-from-ever-acquiring-true-immunity/
I could accept a tax on ALL medicines to go toward the development, testing, and certification. Right now, the US taxpayer bears an inordinate burden for the world’s benefit, which nations routines extort lower than market prices by threatening to manufacture a generic version locally. US drug prices would be much lower, if not for first-world freeloaders (just as our defense budget would be lower, if not for NATO scofflaws).
It seems as if the poorer countries which have not been vaccinating there population have very low CV infection rates compared to those with very high vax rates such as Israel, Austria, Germany, etc.
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Medical ethics...
Talk about an oxymoron.
Tax, tax, tax....more taxes, taxes, taxes. Taxes piled higher and deeper, forever.
Equity, equity, equity...blah blah blah.
Can a day possibly go by without a new entity proposing to dip deeper into our pockets?
There needs to also be a unicorn tax to advance unicorn equity, because at the moment there is great unicorn inequity, given that most people have never even seen a unicorn. Obviously, a stiff global tax is needed to correct this inequity.
Had to look it up to make sure it was the same guy. Abortion as a form of population control was one of his ethical stances.
I'm not convinced his want to get everyone shot with this stuff is altruistic.
How about we trade our vaxxes for all of India’s HCQ and Africa’s Ivermectin?
It wouldn’t be global, of course.
Tax China instead.
How would that be enforced?
How about a global tax on China for the costs of the virus?
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