World’s quest for a Covid-19 vaccine is in danger of becoming a free-for-all as nationalism surges

Who would have thought that the quest for a vaccine to protect us from the Covid-19 virus would have mutated into such a defining clash between multilateral cooperation and raw, law-of-the-jungle nationalism? On the one hand, at least 50 former world leaders including from the African Union, have called in an open letter for the eventual Covid-19 vaccine to become “the people’s vaccine” – a public good for the world, patent-free, produced at scale and made at no cost to people everywhere: “We…

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