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-Land of the Free
Trump administration 'compiled secret list' to decide which nations would receive COVID vaccine first: Allies were placed at the top ahead of poorer more desperate countries
2022-01-29
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Isn't that the way it's supposed to be?
Sure. Limited supplies at first go to those who can pay in cash or in kind, thus financing increased production. This is the power of capitalism.
  • Confidential vaccine distribution list developed under former President Trump

  • Administration prepared a secret list of which nations would get the doses first

  • It placed allied nations ahead of poorer ones with greater needs

  • The secret list was drawn up during the second half of 2020 and prioritized nations based on their strategic relationship with the U.S.

  • First on the list were allies, including Israel, Taiwan, South Korea, Canada, and several European nations, despite having perfectly good health-care systems

  • The countries also had their own financial resources to buy their own doses and had good infrastructure for it to be distributed

  • Next on the list were countries involved with the development of the vaccine

  • Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, a public–private global health partnership with the goal of increasing access to immunization in poor countries, was third on the list

  • Fourth came all the other countries that were not already in any other category

  • The Trump plan never went into action because the Biden administration came to power before the vaccination effort had been fully set up
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