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World wants to avoid vaccine war; Trump plays for himself

Xi Jinping, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel and the World Health Organization want any vaccine against the new coronavirus to be a “worldwide public good”, but Donald Trump has another priority: vaccinating all of his countrymen.

The United States announced on Thursday (21) a record donation of US $ 1.2 billion to the British laboratory AstraZeneca, which will develop the eventual vaccine at the University of Oxford, subject to a transfer of technology to the USA and delivery 300 million doses.

Behind the principle of the “world public good”, there are, in fact, two distinct problems: intellectual property and the distribution of the first doses. The first may be easier to solve than the second.

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