88V8 wrote:The WHO would prefer that the third world has priority over first world topups.
What will BoJo decide.....
V8
It is not an either/or decision.
Vaccination in middle, including lower middle, income countries is moving along. Lower middle income countries are about 4 months behind high income countries. Not entirely equitable, but probably far better than you thought. The most important factor for lower middle income countries is to keep the supply up and the cost bounded. Get Novavax approved. Stop dissing AstraZeneca and Janssen. Don't shut down vaccine production when the UK etc. reach 200% coverage.
Where things are not progressing is the Low income countries. These are about 9% of the worlds population. Making significant progress here would be a rounding error in the first world's, or the UK's, or China's, vaccine supply. It won't be a problem of vaccine supply, it's the usual problems of getting somebody to pay, and, in some countries, getting things organized with a barely functioning government. It may not matter how many doses are available if there is a civil war, or if plane loads of vaccine rot at an airport.
So yes there are problems and a moral imperative, but WHO is not describing the world that actually exists.