Prognosis
Wealthy Nations’ Vaccine Spree Obscures Global Covid Misery
- Diplomat Bildt’s message to world: ‘The worst isn’t over’
- Sharing vaccine doses, raising billions are top priorities
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Mass vaccinations, falling case counts and waning coronavirus deaths in a few wealthy countries threaten to obscure ongoing worldwide suffering from the pandemic that’s likely to last for months, and perhaps years, to come.
That’s Carl Bildt’s worry as the new special envoy to the World Health Organization-backed effort set up last year to dispatch vaccines and other weapons against Covid-19. Suppressing the virus that’s advancing in India and beyond depends on persuading rich nations to share excess doses and help close a $19 billion funding gap, Bildt said in an interview.