Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic Requires More International Collaboration: Commercial and national interests may undermine the international cooperation needed to equitably and globally distribute a future COVID-19 vaccine

摘要

Global scientific collaboration to find a vaccine is not enough to end the pandemic. International cooperation is also necessary to produce a successful vaccine affordably and distribute it equitably worldwide. Commercial and national interests threaten to thwart the universal immunization needed to curtail the pandemic. International institutions such as the World Health Organization are essential to the solution.