If we want to defeat COVID, everyone must get the vaccine. The greatest single challenge for government officials is figuring out how to do that. There are several key steps:
1. Rich countries must defeat resistance to taking the vaccine. One approach is requiring the vaccine. Another is creating new restrictions for the unvaccinated (as France has done). Either must be accompanied by making the vaccine easily available always to all.
2. All countries must systematically combat disinformation. Its purveyors should be identified, penalized, and a clear, effective counter-message offered.
3. Rich countries must foot the bill for the relatively modest $50 billion the IMF estimates would be the cost of getting the vaccine to everyone on earth. And they should share resources to speed distribution and delivery.
This is what it will take. There are significant entrenched forces resisting the above so it will also take considerably political will. But this problem will not be resolved until we take all these steps.
My new column on this for @thedailybeast. thedailybeast.com/the-pandemic-i…
My new column on this for @thedailybeast. thedailybeast.com/the-pandemic-i…
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