History repeats itself: Attempts to prevent vaccine injustice have provided questionable results

25 November 2020

Wojciech Cieśla

Ingeborg Eliassen

Health/Vaccines

History repeats itself: Attempts to prevent vaccine injustice have provided questionable results

Wojciech Cieśla

Ingeborg Eliassen

25 November 2020

About Vaccines

The world urgently needs 20 billion doses of a vaccine that will protect global citizens against the coronavirus. States are throwing huge sums of public money at the race to beat Covid-19, but who will get there first? Will Big Pharma focus on private profit? Will vaccine nationalism prevail, or will the patent be shared to create a low-cost global supply?

There have been historic attempts to secure Covid-19 vaccines for all who need it, regardless of their ability to pay. Why, then, does it again look like rich countries will get vaccines and the poor will have to wait in line?

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History repeats itself: Attempts to prevent vaccine injustice have provided questionable results

History repeats itself: Attempts to prevent vaccine injustice have provided questionable results

There have been historic attempts to secure Covid-19 vaccines for all who need it, regardless of their ability to pay. Why, then, does it again look like rich countries will get vaccines and the poor will have to wait in line?

About Vaccines

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