Vaccine Nationalism
Total 10 Posts
The best hope for fairly distributing COVID-19 vaccines globally is at risk of failing.
6 min read
COVAX, the global vaccine distribution initiative, is well behind its goal of delivering 2 billion doses this year due to under-investment, vaccine nationalism and export restrictions.
Vaccine nationalism will block our path out of the pandemic – so how do we resist our tribal instinct?
5 min read
Governments are naturally under pressure to focus on national rollouts. But the truth is none of us is safe until we are all safe. We might prefer our own tribe but, to the virus, the world’s population is one big tribe.
Selfless Britain?
5 min read
The government’s strategy not to share a single vaccine dose with the rest of the world until its own entire adult population gets the jab is nothing but a smokescreen to please the populace and, ultimately, a self-defeating strategy.
COVID-19: What happens if some countries don’t vaccinate?
5 min read
Even those that live in areas where the population has already been vaccinated would not be totally protected if the virus mutates elsewhere.
The Week in Covid-19.
9 min read
We look back at last week’s coronavirus situation in the UK, the number of infections remaining high during the lockdown, vaccine nationalism, the gap between vaccine doses, the South African variant, the NHS, and more...
The UK should share the vaccine with the other countries – but only after all the vulnerable have been vaccinated.
5 min read
Prioritising vaccine distribution in the UK will serve the short-term goal of protecting the NHS. Yet this short-term goal does not significantly contribute to containing the pandemic. For that, we need a collective effort.
Is Downing Street panicking over the South African Covid-19 variant?
5 min read
A mix of flawed strategy and dreadful vaccine nationalism — the libertarians are in charge of the country at the worst of time to our peril.