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The COVID ‘vaccine war’ that everybody loses – The Christian Science Monitor
The quest for a COVID-19 vaccine has been caught between the pandemic’s global nature and national governments’ urge to put their own people first.
This is a story about the coronavirus vaccine. But not about the vaccine itself. (It doesnt exist.) Nor whether it will be efficacious. (We simply dont know yet.)
Its about how the quest for a vaccine is getting caught up in a political tangle at the heart of the worlds response to the pandemic: the tension between the obviously international scope of COVID-19s public-health challenge, and national governments urge to prioritize their own agendas and their own citizens.
This struggle a kind of…
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