Vaccine Nationalism Risks Prolonging Pandemic, According to Chief Scientist, WHO

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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🗓️ 10 April 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

r. Soumya Swaminathan calls for a massive increase in the global vaccine supply in order to prevent the rise of more dangerous and vaccine-evading super-variants, in a wide-ranging interview with Ian Bremmer on the GZERO World podcast. Dr. Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization, argues that vaccine nationalism, where countries prioritize their own citizens ahead of the rest of the world, will only prolong the pandemic because a virus does not stop at any national border. She also weighs in on a controversial new WHO report investigating the origins of COVID-19 and discusses when she thinks the world’s children should get vaccinated. In addition, she suggests we may see alternative vaccine forms, like nasal sprays, sooner than we think.

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0:00.0	This virus does not respect borders. It doesn't respect nationalities or religion or age or anything
0:05.8	like that. It just spreads where it has an opportunity to spread. It only recognizes human beings.
0:13.4	Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast. Here you'll find extended versions of the interviews
0:19.1	from my show on public television.
0:20.8	I'm Ian Bremmer, and today, more than half a billion people worldwide have already been vaccinated by the end of March.
0:29.0	And that should be cause for celebration.
0:31.7	But the vast majority of those shots happened in just 10 nations.
0:35.9	And dozens of poorer countries around the world have yet to begin
0:39.3	distribution. We're talking about vaccine nationalism today and the impact it could have on public
0:46.2	health if new and dangerous mutations of coronavirus continue to spread, not to mention all the
0:51.9	people that are going to die because they don't have access
0:54.1	to vaccines yet. My guest is the chief scientist at the World Health Organization, Dr. Salmiya
1:00.0	Suamenath. Let's get right to you.
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