Vaccinating The World: Will Diplomacy, Nationalism Or Profit Motive Prevail?

How can nations gain influence, strengthen alliances and protect their own populations against a global threat? Here’s one way: provide support in the battle against the common enemy. With less than 10 percent of the globe vaccinated and surges in infections from the COVID-19 Delta variant on the rise, getting shots in arms everywhere should be a public health priority, a national security strategy and a moral imperative, especially for high income countries.

Yet vaccine nationalism, underfunded international organizations, and arguments over intellectual property rights, rather than vaccine diplomacy and robust international coordination, have slowed progress.

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This week, Foreign Policy Magazine’s Elise Labott moderates a panel discussion to help us understand the complex issues governing the global response to the pandemic to date, the prospects for getting it right in the future and how Covid-19 is shaping geopolitics in a changing world.

RESOURCES

Duke University's data visualizations on inequities in vaccine access: https://launchandscalefaster.org/covid-19/vaccinepurchases

“The Folly of Hoarding Knowledge in the COVID-19 Age Let Vaccine Producers in Poor Countries Help End the Pandemic,” by Tahir Amin, Foreign Affairs, January 29, 2021
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2021-01-29/folly-hoarding-knowledge-covid-19-age

"Covid-19 has exposed the limits of the pharmaceutical market model," by Tahir Amin and Rohit Malpani, STAT News May 19, 2020
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/19/covid-19-exposed-limits-drug-development-model/

Oxfam’s call for A People’s Vaccine: https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/peoples-vaccine-fastest-way-to-end-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Op-Ed “Beyond ample supply, hurdles abound in the race to vaccinate the globe,” By MARK MCCLELLAN, KRISHNA UDAYAKUMAR, MICHAEL MERSON AND GARY EDSON The Hill, July 8, 2021 https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/562059-despite-ample-supply-hurdles-abound-in-the-race-to-vaccinate-the-globe
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