Current Events > US won't join global covid-19 vaccine effort because it's led by WHO

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/01/us-wont-join-global-coronavirus-vaccine-effort-because-its-led-by-the-who/

The U.S. announced Tuesday that it would not join an international coalition to find and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine worldwide due to the group's association with the World Health Organization, the latest sign of the Trump administration withdrawing the country from the international health community's response to the pandemic over political concerns.

Covax is co-led by the World Health Organization, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Gavi, which aims to purchase 2 billion doses of potential Covid-19 shots from several vaccine makers by the end of 2021 and distribute them worldwide.

The WHO announced last week that Covax plans to work with vaccine manufacturers to provide countries worldwide equitable access to safe and effective vaccines, once they are licensed and approved, and that 172 countries are engaged in discussions to potentially participate.

On Monday, the European Commission confirmed it would contribute 400 million euros ($478 million) to the initiative, and the WHO said Germany had joined the pact as well.

"The United States will continue to engage our international partners to ensure we defeat this virus, but we will not be constrained by multilateral organizations influenced by the corrupt World Health Organization and China," said Judd Deere, a spokesman for the White House.

According to the Washington Post, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar had "interest in exploring some type of role in Covax but there was resistance in some corners of the government and a belief that the U.S. has enough coronavirus vaccine candidates in advanced clinical trials that it can go it alone."

The World Health Organization has warned against "vaccine nationalism," with WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stating, "for the world to recover faster, it has to recover together, because it's a globalized world: the economies are intertwined."

After initially praising both China and the WHO at the pandemic's outset, President Donald Trump sharply reversed course. In early April, Trump blasted the World Health Organization, saying they "called it wrong" on the virus, that the WHO was "very China-centric" in its approach, and froze U.S. funding to the organization. "They should have known and they probably did know," Trump said of World Health Organization officials, suggesting the group had gone along with China's efforts to downplay the severity of the outbreak. In July, the administration sent a letter signaling its intent to withdraw from the WHO. "When the U.S. says it is not going to participate in any sort of multilateral effort to secure vaccines, it's a real blow," said Suerie Moon, co-director of the Global Health Center at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. "The behavior of countries when it comes to vaccines in this pandemic will have political repercussions beyond public health."

"Equal access to a COVID-19 vaccine is the key to beating the virus and paving the way for recovery from the pandemic," said Stefan Lfven, the prime minister of Sweden. "This cannot be a race with a few winners, and the COVAX Facility is an important part of the solution making sure all countries can benefit from access to the world's largest portfolio of candidates and fair and equitable distribution of vaccine doses."

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Trump wants you to stay sick.

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*finds vaccine*
US: Can we have some?
WHO: Oh my no

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So many people are dying because of Trump

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Literally China, the country that spread the virus. It came from China wtf.

twitterfriends posted...

So many people are dying because of Trump

This cause.
https://i.imgur.com/0CCSbLD.jpeg

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Good.




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USA will have a vaccine by january or February. So its not like its totally necessary to be a part of some grand intitiative

Honestly can you blame them? I personally wouldn't trust the WHO either, they have been horribly unhelpful this entire pandemic, and just plain horrible.

EricDraven59 posted...

USA will have a vaccine by january or February. So its not like its totally necessary to be a part of some grand intitiative

yeah just like we had our own working covid tests in time to stop a major outbreak right

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Bio1590 posted...

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stating, "for the world to recover faster, it has to recover together, because it's a globalized world: the economies are intertwined."

"Unless if you're Taiwan, then **** you, amirite" *wink* *wink* *bows to China*
-Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

They still better give us the vaccine

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fair, next.


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The Democrats don't want us to do anything about COVID to make me look bad!

He donald, everyone else is doing a thing, do you want to?

Nah, we good...

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Fuck Trump.

Just fucking dumb. And of course people support it.
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USA! USA! USA! (caps)

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Noumas posted...

Honestly can you blame them?

Yes.

Noumas posted...

I personally wouldn't trust the WHO either, they have been horribly unhelpful this entire pandemic, and just plain horrible.

lol, hell of a lot better than anything coming from the US.

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Ludwig Von 2 posted...

They still better give us the vaccine

i much rather wait till it actually is safe to use. not going to get it unless that happens
i'll gladly avoid everyone. wear a mask and only take necessary trips to the store.

my dog will die if i get sick, covid can transfer to pets.
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USA is a leper colony

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TreyFlowers posted...

USA is a leper colony

3 month reinfection rating for covid. we're all set up for round 2.
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Noumas posted...

Honestly can you blame them? I personally wouldn't trust the WHO either, they have been horribly unhelpful this entire pandemic, and just plain horrible.

They sent out the global alert for this very pandemic back in January.

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As a Canadian looking from the outside the US seems like a 3rd world country. The last 4 years has been a dumpster fire I hope the borders remain close for now.

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if trump can convince people it doesnt matter enough to affect his reelection who cares? he's currently not doing a terrible job at that either

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008Zulu posted...

They sent out the global alert for this very pandemic back in January

they're not all to blame. everyone is to blame to some degree though mostly china's fault for not preventing the pandemic to start spreading through Europe and then to the US.
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Ludwig Von 2 posted...

They still better give us the vaccine

Yeah, or else the US (Trump) will nuke the UN!

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American exceptionalism at its worst

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Can the EU or somebody else invade us and take over? Please?

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apocalyptic_4 posted...

As a Canadian looking from the outside the US seems like a 3rd world country. The last 4 years has been a dumpster fire I hope the borders remain close for now.

More like a Trumpster fire

Don't worry, we'll join once Biden is in office.

Dark_SilverX posted...

Good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_Asclepius

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