Suzman argues that spare capacity in the West and elsewhere should not just be ploughed back into third dose boosters, but rather “could and should have much greater impact” if deployed in Africa for global health outcomes.
Even if you reject the moral arguments around vaccinating higher risk populations and healthcare workers ahead of lower risk populations elsewhere, argues Suzman, the public health arguments are weighty.
“But what is rational at a global level becomes very challenging at the level of domestic politics”, he says, “where each national government is listening to domestic constituencies worried about the need to hoard booster shots.”
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