Biden and the G-7 fell short on vaccines

“One billion doses is just a drop in the ocean compared with the desperate need worldwide. It translates into 500 million fully vaccinated people, which won’t make a dent in the pandemic,” Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University, told my colleague Emily Rauhala. “What’s especially galling is that our six allies combined only matched President Biden’s pledge. Yet the UK and Europe have ample doses to vaccinate all their vulnerable people. … What must happen next is to pledge ongoing vaccine donations at scale, fund vaccine infrastructure and delivery, and building manufacturing capacity in regional hubs.”