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🗓️ 20 February 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | When the world has safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, how can we make sure they reach |
0:10.5 | the people that need them most? |
0:12.8 | Today. |
0:13.8 | There's this video I've watched a lot this week. |
0:16.4 | It's from two years ago. |
0:17.4 | There are little shots of vials moving along an assembly line, people staring earnestly |
0:23.6 | into the camera, walking through masked crowds or cuddling a baby. |
0:29.3 | It's from a group called Gavi, a public-private partnership with the goal of expanding vaccine |
0:34.0 | access. |
0:35.2 | If governments compete for vaccines, most countries could miss out. |
0:39.9 | This is not only bad for countries that cannot secure their own supplies. |
0:44.3 | It's bad for us all, as no one is safe until everyone is safe. |
0:50.6 | In 2020, Gavi was pushing the idea of a special partnership, where countries would pool money |
0:56.0 | and risk to try to get COVID vaccines to people around the world. |
1:00.3 | Rich countries would pay more, poor countries would get the vaccines for free. |
1:04.5 | They called it COVAX. |
1:06.2 | If we start now, we can save hundreds of thousands of lives, not to mention trillions of dollars. |
1:14.1 | It's not about one country versus another. |
1:17.2 | It's about one world protected. |
1:24.6 | The idea sounded great, almost utopian. |
1:28.2 | To actual problem, it also sounded like a total fantasy. |
1:32.4 | Getting vaccines to people in poor countries could mean something more than begging Western |
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