Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2020
‘Vaccine nationalism’: a new dynamic in the race to quash coronavirus
27 May 2020 - International pursuit for a shot is shifting into a contest of which world power can immunise its population first.
Pharmaceutical companies are bracing for export bans on future coronavirus vaccines and spreading production across different continents, on early signs of a high-stakes geopolitical scramble to secure supplies for a scientific breakthrough that could confer enormous economic and political power.
The resulting picture is what public-health experts call “vaccine nationalism,” as the international pursuit for a desperately needed shot shifts into a contest of which world power can immunise its population first.
