Posted on 04/21/2020 2:37:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The 193 members of the UN General Assembly on Monday adopted by consensus a resolution that calls for "equitable, efficient and timely" access to any future vaccines developed to fight coronavirus.
The resolution also highlights the "crucial leading role" played by the World Health Organization, which has faced criticism from Washington and others about its handling of the pandemic.
The resolution, which was drafted by Mexico and received US support, calls for strengthening the "scientific international cooperation necessary to combat COVID-19 and to bolster coordination," including with the private sector.
The resolution asks Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to "to identify and recommend options, including approaches to rapidly scaling manufacturing and strengthening supply chains that promote and ensure fair, transparent, equitable, efficient and timely access to and distribution of preventive tools, laboratory testing, reagents and supporting materials, essential medical supplies, new diagnostics, drugs and future COVID-19 vaccines."
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Read that as “the U.S. will pay for it.”
That means the USA gets pretty much everything, and the rest of the scumbag countries who don’t pay their bills, get jack squat.
The best way to prevent future outbreaks is to isolate China from the world community.
some member nations don’t even vaccinate against polio
the issue is never the issue
Mehi Co. can fund it with their ill-gotten gains.
“However, as they would hamper global travel and trade, such restrictions are not recommended by WHO once the global spread of pandemic influenza is established.”
https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/92/12/14-135590/en/
Travel restrictions were included in the WHO interim protocol: rapid operations to contain the initial emergence of pandemic influenza that was published in 2007 by the World Health Organization (WHO).1
However, as they would hamper global travel and trade, such restrictions are not recommended by WHO once the global spread of pandemic influenza is established.
In 2009, some countries applied travel restrictions as one of several strategies to prevent the introduction of the influenza virus A(H1N1)pdm09 into their territories but the effectiveness of this approach has subsequently been questioned....
Equitable would mean we pay 22% of the UN bill, we get 22% of the vaccine. Anything else would be inequity.
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