It’s hard not to feel complicit.
As high income nations squabble over whether to vaccinate the youngest and least vulnerable, much of the world has yet to vaccinate their absolute most vulnerable.
Global inequities run deep. But this is a particularly egregious one.
As high income nations squabble over whether to vaccinate the youngest and least vulnerable, much of the world has yet to vaccinate their absolute most vulnerable.
Global inequities run deep. But this is a particularly egregious one.
Again, these are optimization problems.
We should ask questions like: how many childhood doses are worth a single dose in a 70 year old in India.
Probably you need thousands of childhood doses to offer as much benefit as a single dose to a 70 year old.
We should ask questions like: how many childhood doses are worth a single dose in a 70 year old in India.
Probably you need thousands of childhood doses to offer as much benefit as a single dose to a 70 year old.
Of course, these are not just simple public health decisions that need to be optimized - these are massive geopolitical (mis?)calculations that are above my pay grade.
That or just frank ethnocentric behavior.
Probably a bit of both.
That or just frank ethnocentric behavior.
Probably a bit of both.
I don’t have the answers. But I do feel complicit in what history may well look back on as cold hearted egregious acts of vaccine nationalism that will over time necessarily translate into a world w even greater nationalism where the rich get richer.
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