Current Events > The fight once there is a coronavirus vaccine will get ugly

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-08/the-global-fight-over-covid-19-vaccines-will-get-very-ugly

For most people, a vaccine against the coronavirus cant come soon enough, as it will be the only tolerable way to achieve herd immunity. And yet, theres still a danger that humanity will fail in its quest to control Covid-19. The culprit wouldnt necessarily be the medical complexity, fiendish as it is, of engineering a vaccine. It could also be the ensuing politics surrounding inoculation. The fights will be intense, irrational and sometimes nasty. The first problem is that even after we become confident that a particular vaccine is effective and safe, there wont be enough for everyone. So well have to decide: Who should get the shots first? Who wont get any? These questions will come up between countries, and within them. Given the right leadership, the world would overcome these difficulties with dignity and wisdom. Forty years ago, for example, as the world shivered in a Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, humanity nonetheless managed to unite and eradicate smallpox. Today, however, the odds for health-care multilateralism are bad. Rich nations will try to outbid poor ones in securing supplies of the vaccine. And someone like U.S. President Donald Trump may not necessarily share a scarce vaccine invented and made in America with other countries.

If these dilemmas are political dynamite, they may end up looking trivial next to whats sure to be the biggest showdown: the standoff between scientific rationality and conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories have already led to anti-vaxxers refusing to get shots against measles, thus compromising the already-achieved herd immunity and causing new outbreaks of this deadly disease. The same could happen when a coronavirus vaccine becomes available. The threshold for herd immunity against Covid-19 is estimated at between 55% and 82% of a given population. But only about 50% of Americans say theyd get vaccinated.

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I'm more worried about price gouging.
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I really dont care about anti-vaxxers. If they wanna roll the dice have a nice day.

this world is pathetic by the way. Its fucking sad the race is on to collect profits not to save peoples lives

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