64 high-income nations join effort to expand global access to Covid-19 vaccines; USA and China don't

[muriel_volestrangler]

Countries representing about 64% of the world population have signed up to expand global access to Covid-19 vaccines by funding a purchasing pool organized by the World Health Organization and other nonprofit groups, leaders of the effort announced Monday.

Not among the countries: the United States, which had previously said it is not taking part in the so-called COVAX Facility, or Russia nor China, both of which have already issued emergency use licenses for Covid-19 vaccines.

Still, a total of 156 countries have committed to joining the effort, which hopes to purchase 2 billion doses of vaccine by the end of 2021. Of participating countries, 64 are higher-income nations, whose participation is critical to ensuring the financial feasibility of the effort.
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“Vaccine nationalism will only perpetuate the disease and prolong the global recovery,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday. “Working together through the COVAX Facility is not charity, it’s in every country’s own best interests to control the pandemic and accelerate the global economic recovery.”

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/21/64-high-income-nations-join-effort-to-expand-global-access-to-covid-19-vaccines-but-u-s-and-china-do-not/

EU, Japan, UK, Canada and Australia are all in it. It's the countries with authoritarian nationalist heads of state that are the problem. Trump's excuse is that he already had a tantrum about the WHO, so he'll hold his breath on this one too. In reality, it's probably his racism that it the main driver.

[RKP5637]

1. Exactly!!! "In reality, it's probably his racism that it the main driver." Trump is a racist all the

way!!!!!

[world wide wally]

2. I'll wait for the European "designer" vaccine.

Thank you just the same, Donnie.