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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
by 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 agoSomehow, 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 agoNo, 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?