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The G-7 vaccine charade
Jun 27,2021 - Last updated at Jun 27,2021
AUSTIN In a recent essay on Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s new administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times writes correctly that Power’s “first big test … lies in what America does to help vaccinate the rest of the world against COVID-19”. And Power herself is quoted as saying that, “It’s about a very, very tangible, results-oriented agenda.”
Results seemed to follow. At the G-7 summit, Goldberg duly reports, Biden announced that the US would contribute 500 million vaccine doses for use in “low- and middle-income countries”. According to Goldberg, this “spurred other countries to step up their contributions”, ensuring “a billion doses by 2022”.