The COVID ‘vaccine war’ that everybody loses
This is a story about the coronavirus vaccine. But not about the vaccine itself. (It doesn’t exist.) Nor whether it will be efficacious. (We simply don’t know yet.)
It’s about how the quest for a vaccine is getting caught up in a political tangle at the heart of the world’s response to the pandemic: the tension between the obviously international scope of COVID-19’s public-health challenge, and national governments’ urge to prioritize their own agendas and their own citizens.
This struggle – a kind of vaccine war – is playing out in real time.
Baby steps toward cooperationPolitics prevail, for now
