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How the G-7 Can Really End the Global Pandemic
The wealthy world can get Covid vaccines to the impoverished one with a cost-sharing formula modeled on UN peacekeeping.
Global solution.
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to vaccinate the world by the end of next year, saying it “would be the single greatest feat in medical history.” Sadly, a promise is not a plan, and I fear that an initiative that appears to focus on dose-sharing by nations will fall far short of delivering the worldwide herd immunity needed to make all of us safe again.
Having attended 12 of them as prime minister or finance minister, I know how G-7 meetings work. They thrive on informality, which, of course, allows for plain speaking free of diplomatic niceties.