Thread by @MGCHANSA

The reason there is the "Only for use in Africa" label on some vaccines. Please bring every #African here:

The fundamental reason is essentially one of supply management so that #Africans also get a sizeable share of the vaccine within a reasonable time frame. In other words, it is a way to reserve a portion of the vaccine for #Africa.

It is meant to secure the vaccines for #Africa - it is the manufacturers, being aware of the scarcity of the vaccine, proactively managing supply so that there is some for #Africa.

COVID19 is a worldwide pandemic and some parts of the world are more affected than others and every nation and region is working frantically to secure some vaccine for its population.

The problem is that supply is limited, there are roughly less than a dozen vaccines that have been approved by WHO for distribution.

For some of those vaccines, a number of countries had placed orders well before the vaccine was even fully developed.

Essentially the supply of the vaccine should be on the first come, first serve basis.

Except, #African nations do not have money & never placed any orders upfront. In fact any vaccine to be supplied to #Africa states will be supplied on charity using funds raised by various nations & organisations specifically for the purpose of securing free vaccines for #Africa.

To meet all this world demand, it will take a while, months if not years and seeing #Africa is at the back of that queue, it would mean #African citizens would be waiting for quite sometime before getting their hands on any vaccine.

Aware of this, the manufacturers are labelling some of that vaccine batch "Only for use in #Africa." so as to ensure they are not redirected to other waiting customers during the distribution process.

It has nothing to do with the content of those bottles being different and specifically meant to kill #Africans.

Look nobody is interested in killing #Africans - there is no practical or economical value in doing that.

But even if the West or other powers wanted #Africans dead, the most efficient way of doing that isn't by way of engineering vaccines specifically for that purpose or by way of administering any medicine to the #African population.

All that is needed is for the West or the rest of the world to withdraw any support; technical, technological, monetary but more importantly any medical support.

Doing that would ensure that #Africans will essentially start dropping like flies from Cholera, Malaria, HIV / AIDS, Ebola and many other ailments.

In other words, ensuring the most efficient decimation (mass killing) of the #African population would require doing exactly the opposite of what you are currently afraid of.