Can the world collaborate amid vaccine nationalism?
. The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly the worst global health disaster of the twenty-first century. It has ravaged economies, destroyed livelihoods, devastated families and curtailed civil liberties in many parts of the world. But not all countries have been affected equally. Rich countries, such as the US and those in Europe, suffered a higher number of cases (see Figure 1) and casualties (see Figure 2), [i] necessitating a larger response from the developed world in the search for a vaccine. The Spanish flu struck during the First World War when press freedom was severely curtailed in most...