What Next: Is Bill Gates to Blame for Lagging Vaccinations?

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🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds many, if not most, of the world’s global health initiatives, so much so that the Foundation has become one of the most influential deciders of global health policy. With the distribution of vaccines to developing countries all but completely failing, how do we assess the Gates’ culpability? And is it time to imagine another model for global health cooperation? Guest: Tim Schwab, investigative reporter. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. If you've just signed up for Slate Plus because of What Next, fill out this form and you may get some What Next swag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.0	I called up Tim Schwab because I was hoping he could tell me the origin of this phrase.
1:02.0	I've been hearing more and more of recently.
1:04.0	Vaccine apartheid.
1:07.0	I've heard it from the head of the World Health Organization.
1:10.0	I think I would go one step further and say not just that the world is at risk of vaccine apartheid.
1:17.0	The world is in vaccine apartheid.
1:20.0	I've heard it on the floor of the United Nations.
1:23.0	Vaccine apartheid has resulted in significant disparities.
1:28.0	But Tim, he'd heard it way before all that.
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