Tedros warned that some countries fear they won’t get the vaccines promised under the WHO-led Covax initiative. Although Tedros hailed the vaccine rollout as a great scientific achievement, he noted that there are lessons to be learned from past global pandemics when vaccines took a long time to reach developing countries. The current crisis was a chance to “rewrite history,” by ensuring that vaccines are distributed fairly between countries and to those who need them the most.

Hmmm so what does everything think would be the most fair and equitable way to distribute the vaccine? “I need to be blunt: The world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure — and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries,” he said, noting that although 39 million doses have been administered in more than 40 higher-income countries, one poor country has given only 25 doses.”