Thread by @pleasesaveour

About 70 percent of the world’s population — or 5.6 billion people — will probably need to be inoculated to begin to establish herd immunity and slow its spread
washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…

Yet another reason to vote all these fuqqers out

Yet the nationalistic priorities of individual nations could thwart the strategic imperative to tamp down hot spots wherever they are on the planet — including poor countries that cannot afford the vaccine. The US in particular

could be left in the cold if vaccines developed here as part of a go-it-alone approach turn out to be less effective than those produced in China or Europe.

Oh you mean like testing?

“The model of countries thinking only of themselves is not going to work. Even if you’re living somewhere that’s somehow perfectly without any infections, your best efforts to fight the virus are going to fail unless you shut off all your borders and trade,”

That won't work😒

Intn'l health advocates want to avoid a repeat of 2009 when wealthy countries incl the US which was led by the internationalist-leaning PBO were at the head of the line for H1N1 swine-flu vacc leaving underdeveloped countries with little supply until after the pandemic subsided

The global grab for protective equipment and ventilators that left poorer countries empty-handed suggests the competition over vaccines could be at least as fierce.

Francis S. Collins, director of the NIH, and Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, both physicians, were co-authors of an article published in the journal Science on Monday that urged international coordination

“Unless we make this vaccine globally available,” he said, “we are not going to be able to end the pandemic, because … an outbreak anywhere is an outbreak everywhere.”

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