Is only one vaccine to be available, or as many as meet criteria?
Will there be free market competition in the marketplace?
How does this work?
Who decides this?
... Who is going to pay for Africa?
IMO some international org like the UN or WHO should buy 7.8 billion doses of the best vaccine.
One contract with one manufacturer.
All other qualified manufacturers worldwide should be forced to subcontract to help make the 7.9 billion doses ASAP.
It should be paid for by all countries on a sliding scale.
Rich countries pay more.
Poor countries pay less.
Why? Because this is unique, every person in every country is equally threatened by OTHER PEOPLE getting Covid.
Usually rich countries get more good stuff and they say, Ah the hell with the poor countries.
But a worldwide pandemic is different; any country left unvaccinated means the virus gains strength to threaten the rest of the world.
I saw on the news last night about the British lady who made one of the vacines that it would be sold more cheapy to developing nations
i think this is very important and im ok with my tax dollars buying vacine for our tiny and vaunarable Pacific neighbours
Who is going to pay for Africa ?
I *think* the Astra zenica one will be free in perpetuity for certain countries and that if will be sold at cost (($5)) for everyone else until the pandemic is over. In the UK the gov has bought millions of doses (of different vaccines) they will be available for free on NHS but you won't be able to choose which one you get.
Here's the link to the guardian article :
Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine to be sold to developing countries at cost price
Jab that is part of global initiative to distribute doses will remain at low price ‘in perpetuity’www.theguardian.com
My correction, it won't be free but at low cost $3 in perpetuity.
Will there be free market competition in the marketplace?
I know someone (a very nice person) who is so anti some of those names on that list - he's convinced Bill Gates is trying to sterilize the 3rd world through vacines
You need smarter friends. Or at least less-gullible ones who own a TV with more than one channel. My friends are funded by the Gates Foundation to design and test novel drugs against new and drug-resistant parasites that attack humans. If your friend knew anything about how Gates Foundation research funding was competed for, vetted, disbursed, tracked, and acknowledged in international publications, they'd know there is no secrecy.
Thanks to people like this friend, warlords in the DRC kill international relief workers trying to distribute vaccines and education about Ebola.
know
but my freind is still my freind
He has asburgers and i read recently people on the spectrum are more prone to conspiracy theories
He has paralyzing anxiety and depression
I can't abandon him
Agreed -- sorry. You're a good person. And maybe his bridge to reality.
I saw on the news last night about the British lady who made one of the vacines that it would be sold more cheapy to developing nations
i think this is very important and im ok with my tax dollars buying vacine for our tiny and vaunarable Pacific neighbours
Who is going to pay for Africa ?
All RICH liberals...Perhaps the world's riches people ...
Jeff Bezos @ $190 B
Bill Gates @ $120 B
Mark Zucherberg @ $100 B
Warren Buggett @ $77 B
and our own Dancing Fire @ $73B
... might foot the bill.
Hey, wait ... why are they all men?
Yes when I have more $$$ than Bezos....All?
So DF, you've left the dark side; you've crossed the aisle?
Welcome, my friend.
There will not be a menu to pick and choose; we will all struggle to get our hands on any of them.
Global and even national (i.e., US) coverage will be a patchwork of products and payors. Despite what you may have heard, this effort has been driven by the private sector -- although that may change now.
And Bill Gates does personally foot the bill for a lot of global health initiatives. You can take him off that list
That stinks that your still waiting.Still waiting here in NZ
and no choice
Its the Pfizer one
IMO some international org like the UN or WHO should buy 8 billion doses of the best vaccine.
One contract with the best patent holder.
All qualified manufacturers worldwide should help to make the 8 billion doses ASAP.
It should be paid for by all countries on a sliding scale.
Richer countries pay more.
Poorer countries pay less.
Why? Because this is unique, every person in every country is equally threatened by OTHER PEOPLE getting Covid.
Usually rich countries get more good stuff, and the hell with the poor countries.
But a worldwide pandemic is different; any country left unvaccinated means the virus gains strength to threaten the rest of the world.
You're opinionated in a misguided kind of way. There is no such thing as a best vaccine. What's best for one individual, is not best for another.
Not to mention, the more effective mRNA vaccines need to be refrigerated/frozen at below-zero degrees Celsius temperatures. They'll go ineffective real fast if given to developing nations without the capability to store and distribute them as needed.
Simplistic thinking to suppose there is such a thing as a best vaccine, and to suppose you can just order 8 billion or 16 billion dollars. Diversification is needed because it will take too long even for a big pharma like Pfizer to produce enough for every person on the Earth. Say it takes 3 years? In that case, insisting that they are only given the best or nothing at all, you are asking for variants to emerge. Armchair idealists totally out of touch with reality cannot make the world better.
That stinks that your still waiting.
In my opinion Pfizer still has the best combination of protection and effectiveness out of all of them so far available. Moderna is probably just as effective but higher side effects in a higher percentage of people.