Poorer nations face vaccine wait as West locks down supply

The researchers found that the rich nation stockpiling scenario reduced COVID-19 deaths by 33 percent globally. The fair-share approach prevented 61 percent.

Unfortunately the reality is that politicians will not make a decision thinking about what is best for the population, but what is best for their political careers. Stopping the pandemic or preventing deaths is only secondary to not hurting their chances, and if making a deal and hoarding vaccines is going to be perceived by the population as something good for their country then that is what is going to happen.

The WHO in 2019 said "vaccine hesitancy" was one of the top 10 global health threats, and last month The Lancet medical journal warned that growing anti-vaccine movements could hamper the COVID-19 inoculation rollout.

The problem is exacerbated by the differences in morals between scientists and doctors promoting a safe and effective measure and antivaxxers that will not hesitate in using false information to make people believe lies. A doctor can offer true and precise information to calm the anxiety of a mother, but if someone on facebook tells her that vaccines kills more than the disease and that the doctor is only looking to profit from her tragedy the true explanations are not going to be enough. Exaggerated lies simply impress much more.

I don't see a problem with that, more prosperous nations that contribute more to the world through science and innovation, such as the US, Japan, UK, etc. should be given priority over less advance nations that do not contribute much to the world.

The poor hot countries in Africa can do without a vaccine, for some unknown reasons

they have defied the odds and have not been decimated by the virus as predicted by

almost all experts in the beginning of this pandemic.

I don't see a problem with that, more prosperous nations that contribute more to the world through science and innovation, such as the US, Japan, UK, etc. should be given priority over less advance nations that do not contribute much to the world.

"Less advanced nations" do contribute very importantly to the world, and you miss completely the point of the article, for a pandemic you want general immunity all over the world in order to make each country much safer, vaccinating completely only few countries still would mean no economic recovery is possible because isolation would remain a requisite to maintain appropriate levels of immunity.

The poor hot countries in Africa can do without a vaccine, for some unknown reasons

There are several that have been though as important, from the age distribution to the important mortality observed by many other diseases, for this pandemic the situation of the developed nations was that many got a taste of what it means becoming a third world country against the pandemic, for developing nations is mostly business as usual.

In the past, the industrialized nations have helped third world countries with essential vaccinations. I hope that will happen again with Covid-19.

''Waiting"" is one of their important job/part of Poorers' life and complaining isn't common over such thing for them. But the Rich never have to wait and the one who has to, complains right away.

Time is precious. So is Humanity.