While rich countries like the USA and UK are starting to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19, poor countries may lack access to a vaccine for years. Rich countries, which currently make up 16 percent of the world’s population, have purchased 60 percent of the vaccine produced.The COVAX plan, created by the World Health Organization (WHO) to ensure that vaccines reach all people, have difficulty purchasing even enough to vaccinate 20 percent of the population of low-income countries.Vaccine nationalism is not only morally unacceptable, but can also bring epidemiological problems with it.
Achieving the goal of stopping the pandemic with herd immunity may be a dream.The limited availability of vaccines or excessive demand may negatively affect the course of the epidemic at this point.
Increasing vaccine nationalism is having a negative impact both socially and economically. Ghebreyesus believes that if this goes on, vulnerable and unvaccinated communities may continue to suffer from the secondary effects of the epidemic. He also notes that continued restrictions could also cause economic collapse, so more people would fall into poverty and death rates could rise.
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