> Why should 18 years olds in the EU/US receive a vaccine before 75 year olds in other countries? I don’t know what the EU governments kicked in, but the US ba

> Why should 18 years olds in the EU/US receive a vaccine before 75 year olds in other countries? I don’t know what the EU governments kicked in, but the US basically threw tens of billions of dollars at the US pharma giants to bankroll the wide-scale rollout of not one but three vaccines. The patents are largely European, but the rapid scale-up of production was only possible because of US contributions (true on both sides of the ocean as the US paid to build factories in Europe too in exchange for priority access). But on a larger scale, individual outcomes are somewhat meaningless in the scope of government. Each country’s government has a duty to protect the public health of its citizens, which means trying to get to herd immunity within its own population. It’s like putting on your own mask before helping someone else.