Some urgent thoughts on vaccination and the Global South

Here are three relevant facts about vaccines :

First, Britain is stockpiling millions of surplus vaccines.

Second, these vaccines have a limited shelf life.

Third, the Global South has desperate shortages of the same vaccines.

It is, therefore, imperative that the Global North, as a matter of extreme urgency, puts its stockpiles at the disposal of the World Health Organisation, which can distribute them ona planned basis to those nations in the Global South on the basis of need. I advocated this solution in a blogpost in February as a solution to the glaring inequalities in distribution of, and access to, vaccines. The need is even more pressing now.