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| Around $10bn is being spent on finding a vaccine for coronavirus—it’s not nearly enough. And even when a covid-19 vaccine is found how should it be distributed fairly? Our experts answer your questions. 00:50 - Will there ever be a “silver-bullet” vaccine? 01:41 - How long would it take for the whole world to be vaccinated? 02:25 - Who benefits financially from the vaccine? 03:54 - How much will each vaccine cost? 05:10 - What percentage of Americans do you estimate will choose not to get vaccinated, and how much of an issue will this be? 06:44 - In an ideal world, how should a vaccine be optimally distributed? 07:21 - Will new versions of the vaccine be required periodically? 07:54 - Will developing countries receive equal access to the vaccine, or will they be left behind? 08:50 - Should richer countries pay for vaccines in the developing world? 10:01 - How should we respond to crises like this one in the future? Further reading: Find The Economist’s most recent coverage of covid-19 here: https://econ.st/3iwmMMH Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter to keep up to date with our latest covid-19 coverage: https://econ.st/2Ckne0X Listen to “The Intelligence” podcast about the vaccine candidates and equitable distribution: https://econ.st/3aqh4Jl How the world can think better about catastrophic and existential risks: https://econ.st/2CqYN28 Read our leader on how people must adapt to living in the covid-19 pandemic era: https://econ.st/3gSw0SS How SARS-CoV-2 causes disease and death in covid-19: https://econ.st/33S1jcU Covid-19 testing labs are being overwhelmed: https://econ.st/3iDGMx1 How the pandemic has shown the urgency of reforming care for the elderly: https://econ.st/2XUqfgh Read about the hunt for the origins of covid-19: https://econ.st/3iAoX1L |
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Adil Shah
2020-08-20 at 16:25 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
People need to realise that once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, everything will be back to normal.
Dowain Edman
2020-08-22 at 01:32 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
What will be the side effects no one knows ?????
Mil Frentes Abiertos
2020-08-20 at 19:39 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Cual es la única forma de ver el Futuro? Creando un plan perfecto.
Jorge Buratti
2020-08-20 at 21:13 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
so "everyone" is going to benefit financially for it and that's not explained why and how exactly. But what is explained is that billionaires should be allowed to have HUGE profit over it. Are we talking about public wealth in global scale or videogames here? wthell
eblgraphics
2020-08-21 at 04:06 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Economic remuneration for developing a vaccine is MAD… It will incentivize the creation of less than lethal viruses for commercial reasons if that is not the case now.
Ty Houston
2020-08-21 at 04:44 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
It’s already to go, big Pharmaceuticals just waiting for big media to hype it up so the top 1%!can get richer!
Ty Houston
2020-08-21 at 04:45 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
The mask is a dress rehearsal for the MARK! Don’t take the vaccine! Please don’t take it!
Barrett Haynes
2020-08-21 at 04:45 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
This video is total schill lies.
Ty Houston
2020-08-21 at 04:53 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Vaccine= Population Control
Armi Jarvis
2020-08-21 at 16:53 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
If this resonates with you. Please share. Much gratitude @t
Ciprian Laurentiu
2020-08-21 at 22:14 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
End of 2021….
Mediterranean Diet
2020-08-22 at 01:35 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Vitamin D3. See vitaminDwiki for full details.
last man
2020-08-22 at 01:45 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
In 1986, DHHS was required to submit vaccine safety reports to Congress every two years. As of today, not one report has been submitted. Do they actually expect people to inject this poison into their bodies?
Jimmy Chin
2020-08-22 at 01:51 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
If just one person is left infected, the possibility of COVID19 spreading is still probable.
Am velvet
2020-08-22 at 21:07 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Sad but true
Rastrman TheSeer
2020-08-22 at 19:56 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Hi I just tried the vaccine and am here to give results in real time. So far ba-a I feel fine, maybe a little ba-a-a sorry, having trouble baa-a-a-a-a writing ba-a-a-a-a [end of transmission]
Joy Holistic
2020-08-23 at 17:38 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Follow the money !!!!
Dan Remenyi
2020-08-24 at 00:35 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
We might find a vaccine! It might work! We might need multiple shorts! A lot of people might want to get it! We might be able to produce enough units of it! We might be able to afford to use it! ………………………….. In short we know very little about a possible vaccine but we love to speculate and we have no problems in talking about things we know little about.
Renaissance Marie Austin
2020-08-24 at 00:58 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Hahah. With today's announcement from President Trump and Dr. Hahn there will be no need for a vaccine! Convalescent plasma is proven to be the best treatment so far. lol. Those who have recovered from Covid 19 who have antibodies have donated and the data is showing the most promising results.
D.J forte
2020-08-24 at 03:51 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
It takes 20 years for a vaccine to be tested by trials
and approved.
Defence Freedom
2020-08-24 at 04:54 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Psychopath dictator south korea president moon
Hung Tran
2020-08-24 at 12:58 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
?Pearl Harbor, Japan killed 24,000 Americans, lost hundreds of billions of dollars and Japan was punished. Now,with the biological weapons of Wuhan, the Chinese Communist Party Zombie killed 180,000 Americans, killed 810,000 people in the world and caused trillions of dollars worth of damage. CCP zombies have serious challenges, threatening to invade and expand the East Sea, East China Sea, Taiwan Country, India, … CCP Support Pakistan to fight India, support Iran, North Korea, .. .to fight Americans and Allies. The CCP threatens to expand the ‘Global Economic Supply Chain, and the Military, threatens the‘ debt trap ’to expand. CCP brutally suppresses and kills people in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, … CCP steals technology, copyright and confidential information with Huawei, ZTE, by Chinese living abroad, … CCP 'drinking the Mekong water' and 'creating a new dispute with Nepal and Buhtan'. The United States, the Allies, the UN, International Law, the WTO and the International must immediately eliminate the CCP Zombie.CCP zombies must be severely punished.
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