Should rich countries vaccinate our children, or donate our surplus vaccinations to poor countries that don't even have enough money to buy shots for their elderly and frontline workers?

Thank you, that's a great answer and good points. thank you for the donation link also, although to be honest I'm not in a position to be donating money personally! I didn't know about all the cheap vaccines available now, and I wonder why the WHO director is even asking, then?

Biden (and even the pope!) have said that they want to waive Vaccine patents. Predictably, Pfizer said, "No thank you."

I have a friend in a poor country that is getting really bad right now. She told me her mother (elderly) has been in the hospital on the ventilator for 3 weeks, and when I asked about the vaccine she said it's not available there.

I felt like we richest countries are basically hogging this precious life-saving medicine, and inoculating all of our children, even though they are overwhelmingly not at risk. The EU just approved Pfizer for 12 plus also... and we know very well that each child that is needlessly vaccinated, those shots could have saved someone's mom from dying in another country.

I think you're right that it's instinctive, and probably any country with the resources will do the same. And maybe once everybody is vaccinated here we can help more, almost like they tell you to put your oxygen mask on before you help your child get theirs on in an airplane.

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