The WHO is wrong again
The World Health Organization on Wednesday condemned the United States and other rich countries such as Israel and Germany for ordering Covid reinforcements for its own citizens. There is insufficient evidence to support the need for third doses, WHO officials said, while accusing rich countries of behaving selfishly in protecting their own citizens while billions of people at all the world remains unvaccinated.
“The divide between those who have and those who don’t will only grow if manufacturers and leaders prioritize profits over supplies in low- and middle-income countries,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “The injustice of vaccines is a disgrace to all humanity,” rich countries distribute “additional life jackets to people who already have life jackets” and let others “drown without a life jacket,” he complained WHO doctor Mike Ryan.
This analogy does not contain, therefore, well, since the United States has already given 110 million vaccines from its supply to lower-income countries and has contracted 500 million more to give them, three times the 200 million reinforcements that the The Biden administration recently called for Americans. The administration has also pledged up to $ 4 billion to the WHO-supported Covax program to buy vaccines for low-income countries, an editorial in the magazine said today. All in all, the United States will end up giving more vaccines than it administers to its own citizens.
In any case, the WHO should not give lectures to the US and other rich countries on its global public health obligations. These are the same ones who praised China’s transparency during the early days of the pandemic and waited until mid-January to recognize evidence of human-to-human transmission. At that time, the virus was spreading furtively throughout Europe.