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"COVID Nationalism" Simplifies Much More Complex Picture

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The New Yort Times (NYTreported February 11, 2021

"NEW DELHI — India, the unmatched vaccine manufacturing power, is giving away millions of doses to neighbors friendly and estranged. It is trying to counter China, which has made doling out shots a central plank of its foreign relations. And the United Arab Emirates, drawing on its oil riches, is buying jabs on behalf of its allies..."

yet

NYT earlier reported
December 15, 2020:

"The U.S., Britain, Canada and others are hedging their bets, reserving doses that far outnumber their populations, as many poorer nations struggle to secure enough.

As a growing number of coronavirus vaccines advance through clinical trials, wealthy countries are fueling an extraordinary gap in access around the world, laying claim to more than half the doses that could come on the market by the end of [2021]."
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A. What is to be done? 

B.  Is the World Health Organisation or some other entity, up to sorting things out?


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