The United States announced Tuesday that it will not signal a foreign coalition to locate and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine abroad because of the group’s agreement with the World Health Organization, the latest sign that Trump’s management is taking flight to the country from abroad.fitness community’s reaction to the pandemic about political concerns.
Covax is co-led through the World Health Organization, the Coalition for Innovations in Epidemic Preparedness and Gavi, which aims to acquire 2 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines from various vaccine brands through the end of 2021 and distribute them worldwide.
WHO announced last week that Covax plans to work with vaccine brands to provide countries around the world with equitable access and effective vaccines, once they are approved and approved, and that 172 countries are in talks to potentially participate.
On Monday, the European Commission showed that it would make a contribution of 400 million euros ($478 million) to the initiative, and WHO said Germany had also joined the pact.
“The United States will continue to interact with our foreign partners to defeat this virus, but we will not be constrained by multilateral organizations influenced by the World Health Organization and China,” said White House spokesman Judd Deere.
According to the Washington Post, the secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, had “an interest in exploring a safe type of paper in CovaxArray …but there is resistance in some corners of the passing government and the confidence that the United States has enough applicants.”coronavirus vaccines in complex clinical trials, that he can pass it on alone.”
The World Health Organization warned that it opposes “vaccine nationalism,” and WHO leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that “to make the global faster, it will have to do so together, because it is a globalization: economies are linked.”
After first praising China and WHO at the start of the pandemic, President Donald Trump replaced the course.In early April, Trump criticized the World Health Organization, saying he had “incorrectly qualified” the virus, that WHO was “very directed at China.”in his technique and froze U.S. funding.”They deserve to know it and probably knew it,” Trump said of World Health Organization officials, suggesting that the organization had accompanied China’s efforts to minimize the severity of the outbreak.a letter declaring its goal of withdrawing from WHO.”When the United States says it will not participate in any multilateral effort for safe vaccines, it is a genuine blow,” said Suerie Moon, co-director of the Center for Global Health at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva.”The behavior of country vaccines in this pandemic will have political implications beyond public health.”
“Just like a COVID-19 vaccine is the key to defeating the virus and paving the way for the recovery of the pandemic,” Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lefven said.”This cannot be a race with a few winners and COVAX Installation is a vital component of the solution, ensuring that all countries have the world’s largest applicant portfolio and a fair and equitable distribution of vaccine doses.”
U.S. says it will not enroll in WHO-related efforts to expand and distribute coronavirus vaccine (WaPo)
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