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Yes.. and Moderna and Pfizer are increasing the prices of their Covid vaccines to western nations providing more margin power.
Such easy money, almost 3x now.
WHO calls for halting COVID-19 vaccine boosters in favor of unvaccinated
https://www.reuters.com/business/he...booster-doses-until-september-end-2021-08-04/
The World Health Organization is calling for a halt on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September, its head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday, as the gap between vaccinations in wealthy and poor countries widens.
The call for a moratorium is the strongest statement yet from the UN agency at a time when countries deliberate the need for boosters to combat the fast-spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus.
"I understand the concern of all governments to protect their people from the Delta variant. But we cannot accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it," Tedros added.
High-income countries administered around 50 doses for every 100 people in May, and that number has since doubled, according to WHO. Low-income countries have only been able to administer 1.5 doses for every 100 people, due to lack of supply.
"We need an urgent reversal from the majority of vaccines going to high-income countries to the majority going to low-income countries," Tedros said.
To counter the spread of the Delta variant, some countries have begun to use or started weighing on the need for booster doses even as scientists debate over whether or not extra shots are needed.
"The fact that we are vaccinating healthy adults with a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines is a short-sighted way of thinking," said Elin Hoffmann Dahl, infectious diseases medical adviser to Medecins Sans Frontieres' access campaign.
"With the emergence of new variants, if we continue to leave the majority of the world unvaccinated, we will most definitely need adjusted vaccines in the future," Dahl told Reuters.
Last week, Israeli President Isaac Herzog received a third shot of coronavirus vaccine, kicking off a campaign to give booster doses to people aged over 60 in the country.
The United States in July signed a deal with Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and German partner BioNTech to buy 200 million additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to help with pediatric vaccination as well as possible booster shots.
U.S. health regulators were still assessing the need for a booster dose.
https://www.reuters.com/business/he...booster-doses-until-september-end-2021-08-04/
The World Health Organization is calling for a halt on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September, its head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday, as the gap between vaccinations in wealthy and poor countries widens.
The call for a moratorium is the strongest statement yet from the UN agency at a time when countries deliberate the need for boosters to combat the fast-spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus.
"I understand the concern of all governments to protect their people from the Delta variant. But we cannot accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it," Tedros added.
High-income countries administered around 50 doses for every 100 people in May, and that number has since doubled, according to WHO. Low-income countries have only been able to administer 1.5 doses for every 100 people, due to lack of supply.
"We need an urgent reversal from the majority of vaccines going to high-income countries to the majority going to low-income countries," Tedros said.
To counter the spread of the Delta variant, some countries have begun to use or started weighing on the need for booster doses even as scientists debate over whether or not extra shots are needed.
"The fact that we are vaccinating healthy adults with a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines is a short-sighted way of thinking," said Elin Hoffmann Dahl, infectious diseases medical adviser to Medecins Sans Frontieres' access campaign.
"With the emergence of new variants, if we continue to leave the majority of the world unvaccinated, we will most definitely need adjusted vaccines in the future," Dahl told Reuters.
Last week, Israeli President Isaac Herzog received a third shot of coronavirus vaccine, kicking off a campaign to give booster doses to people aged over 60 in the country.
The United States in July signed a deal with Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and German partner BioNTech to buy 200 million additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to help with pediatric vaccination as well as possible booster shots.
U.S. health regulators were still assessing the need for a booster dose.
I could support vaccinating all adults elsewhere in the world before moving to kids but that is probably a lost cause at this point given the current atmospherics in the country.
No. This would be a policy of subtraction, not addition and cause division. Poorer countries need access to vaccines but the effort should be to ramp up production, not take away supply.
Your binary mind makes it either/or. It's what you do.
High risk adults in other countries should be getting high levels of vaccines from the developed countries before young children here, unless they present other risks.
Is it perfect, no.
I have a binary mind? You just made a binary choice between kids and high risk adults. Pot meet kettle.
Your position on this is quintessential binary choice. I am saying it will not work and what they need to do is build more production capacity. That is obviously where the failure is.
You are just talking your book like a greedy American. You want what is best for your Moderna stock.
Moderna is going to the moon because it’s a good company with a good product and big growth potential beyond Covid.
As far as vaccine policy, no we should not take vaccine availability from kids here for people elsewhere. It’s just not good policy. It’s a policy of subtraction, not addition. You don’t rob Peter to pay Paul, as the old saying goes.
There is a real issue in the developing world that many countries won’t have significant vaccine access until 2022. The answer is not and should never be either or but moving toward all. To get to a place where we can do that requires increased vaccine production capacity. It makes so much better sense than juggling limited doses on a global scale and imagine the logistics of it all. It doesn’t make good sense.