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When you are in a crisis, the first thing you do is put the oxygen mask on yourself. The crisis in the UK and the US has been severe and it does not help to sp

When you are in a crisis, the first thing you do is put the oxygen mask on yourself. The crisis in the UK and the US has been severe and it does not help to spread the vaccine around peanut butter style across every country in the world such that only 5% of the population has it. If anything else, we should be focusing it more on single countries impacted the most to get their essential workers and most impacted covered before moving on to a next one.

Ma8ee 6y ago
It certainly helps to vaccinate the most vulnerable people in all countries, instead of vaccinate everyone in certain countries first.
- rootusrootus 6y ago
  Apparently the rest of the world, in particular many non-western nations, are not being hit as hard by covid as the US. So it makes sense to roll it out as fast as possible where people are getting the most lethal infections.
raducu 6y ago
Actually, "putting the oxygen mask on yourself" would be the equivalent to vaccinating your medical staff, not your whole friggin country. The US and UK don't fare much worse than the rest of the EU, per capita, do they? USA+ UK = 34 million cases, EU=24 million cases. The biggest problem with vaccine mercantilism is if we don't rationally share the vaccine, the vaccine technology and means of production, then the fact we vaccinated 100% of one country will be useless in 2 years with all the variants mutating in less fortunate countries.
- hef19898 6y ago
  Somehow, the EU plan to over purchase (which they did already end of 2020, early 2021) and share surplus vaccines withe developing countries to avoid exactly that gets completely ignored.
  - tasssko 6y ago
    No, most western countries that bought vaccines “over purchased” for this same reason too. For example the UK has purchased 400M doses so far. This PR piece summarises this objective. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-government-secures-additional-40-million-doses-of-valneva-vaccine https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-government-secures-add...
- jopsen 6y ago
  > we don't rationally share the vaccine, By the end of 2021, do you really think that'll still be a problem? Vaccine shortage is a problem right now. But the end of 2021 we'll have vaccines by the billions. As for the next mutation, we'll likely have the productions capacity. The question becomes if a vaccine can be developed fast?

Ma8ee 6y ago

It certainly helps to vaccinate the most vulnerable people in all countries, instead of vaccinate everyone in certain countries first.

rootusrootus 6y ago
Apparently the rest of the world, in particular many non-western nations, are not being hit as hard by covid as the US. So it makes sense to roll it out as fast as possible where people are getting the most lethal infections.

raducu 6y ago

Actually, "putting the oxygen mask on yourself" would be the equivalent to vaccinating your medical staff, not your whole friggin country. The US and UK don't fare much worse than the rest of the EU, per capita, do they? USA+ UK = 34 million cases, EU=24 million cases. The biggest problem with vaccine mercantilism is if we don't rationally share the vaccine, the vaccine technology and means of production, then the fact we vaccinated 100% of one country will be useless in 2 years with all the variants mutating in less fortunate countries.

hef19898 6y ago
Somehow, the EU plan to over purchase (which they did already end of 2020, early 2021) and share surplus vaccines withe developing countries to avoid exactly that gets completely ignored.
- tasssko 6y ago
  No, most western countries that bought vaccines “over purchased” for this same reason too. For example the UK has purchased 400M doses so far. This PR piece summarises this objective. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-government-secures-additional-40-million-doses-of-valneva-vaccine https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-government-secures-add...
jopsen 6y ago
> we don't rationally share the vaccine, By the end of 2021, do you really think that'll still be a problem? Vaccine shortage is a problem right now. But the end of 2021 we'll have vaccines by the billions. As for the next mutation, we'll likely have the productions capacity. The question becomes if a vaccine can be developed fast?