As pandemic surges anew, global envy and anger over U.S. vaccine abundance

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

As pandemic surges anew, global envy and anger over U.S. vaccine abundance

By Anthony Faiola, Emily Rauhala and Antonia Noori Farzan
April 24, 2021 at 5:00 a.m. EDT

As India announced grim records — the highest daily coronavirus infection tallies in a single country — Americans were enjoying a spring of vaccine abundance.

In India, just 1.4 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated, and overwhelmed hospitals have been running short of oxygen. Meanwhile, in the United States — where 1 in 4 Americans are fully vaccinated and more than 40 percent have gotten at least the first dose — a major Miami hospital, Jackson Memorial, said it would begin winding down vaccinations because of excess supply and weakening demand.

In Michigan, health workers are rolling out shots to high school students. In North Carolina, doses sat on shelves earlier this month during a pause for spring break.

A long-simmering debate over the glaring gap in vaccine access — largely between rich and poor countries, but among some developed nations, too — is now boiling over, with global figures and national leaders decrying the vaccine plenty in a few nations and the relative drought almost everywhere else.

African nations such as Namibia and Kenya are denouncing a “vaccine apartheid,” while others are calling for policy changes in Washington and a broader rethink of the intellectual property and trademark laws that govern vaccine manufacturing in global pandemics.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/24/coronavirus-vaccine-us-anger-inequality/

[pandr32]

1. We need to share

After numbers of those getting vaccinated drop here we should share what we can with our neighbors and friends.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. I'm sure that there would be anger. We just turned the corner on getting the shots to our own

population and still have a ways to go. As part of the American generosity, over $4 billion dollars have already been placed aside for such things. Where is the UN in all of this? Where is the European Union/Britain in all of this? Blame shouldn't be piled onto one party or such, and doesn't really solve anything. We are getting there slowly. I suspect that w/ Mr. Biden's administration, we've yet to see the full force of the Biden admin. extending more aid and help to those that lack the means to fight this disease. Not that I have any evidence of this, but look at Biden and what he stands for. A far better man than djt. Far better.

[soothsayer]

3. We've got like 10M astrozeneca we'll never use

[bcool]

4. Biden should give a deadline for getting the vaccine & then send them to other countries

He should say something like "after June 30th (or whenever), we will be sending all vaccine production to other countries, so be sure to get yours before then".

It might:

- get procrastinators to get the shot
- get "America Firsters" to get one just to keep it out of the hands (arms) of the "forriners"