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Trump administration 'compiled secret list' to decide which nations would receive COVID vaccine first: Allies were placed at the top ahead of poorer more desperate countries
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] |
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- Confidential vaccine distribution list developed under former President Trump
- Administration prepared a secret list of which nations would get the doses first
- It placed allied nations ahead of poorer ones with greater needs
- The secret list was drawn up during the second half of 2020 and prioritized nations based on their strategic relationship with the U.S.
- First on the list were allies, including Israel, Taiwan, South Korea, Canada, and several European nations, despite having perfectly good health-care systems
- The countries also had their own financial resources to buy their own doses and had good infrastructure for it to be distributed
- Next on the list were countries involved with the development of the vaccine
- Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, a public–private global health partnership with the goal of increasing access to immunization in poor countries, was third on the list
- Fourth came all the other countries that were not already in any other category
- The Trump plan never went into action because the Biden administration came to power before the vaccination effort had been fully set up
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-01-29