America Can No Longer Wait to Help Vaccinate the World
The longer it takes for the United States to act, the more the risks compound.
To be in America now is to witness two jarring realities at once: the quickening pace of the country’s return to normalcy and the worsening march of COVID-19 beyond its borders. U.S. cities are loosening restrictions, travel is picking back up, and Americans are preparing for a bacchanalian summer. At the same time, a surge of infections in countries including Brazil and India is producing death and suffering on a tremendous scale, a reminder that controlling the virus is ultimately a global challenge. Yet the Biden administration still appears to lack a methodical plan to tackle the pandemic around the world.
“What we need is a much more coherent foreign policy for vaccine diplomacy from the Biden administration,” Peter
