The right incentives for global vaccine access
Over 3.4 million people have now died from Covid-19, and millions more lives could be lost as novel variants of the virus threaten to prolong the pandemic. Photo: AFP
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to reveal shocking underlying infrastructural inequalities around the world. While the United States rapidly rolls out vaccines even to children, countries like India suffer devastating numbers of fatalities each day. India recently reported more than 340,000 daily coronavirus cases nearly half the global total and the country seemingly has no end to its crisis in sight.
In response to intensifying political pressure to reduce low-income countries suffering, US President Joe Biden s administration now supports a waiver of intellectual-property (IP) rights for Covid-19 vaccines so long as the pandemic lasts. This development has elicited two competing responses. Some commentators regard the new US stance as a paradigm shift in the US posit
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The right incentives for global vaccine access
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