The developing world didn't get enough Covid vaccines - but that's not Bill Gates's fault

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The developing world didn't get enough Covid vaccines - but that's not Bill Gates's fault
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The Gates Foundation and other philanthropic organisations tried to help, while national governments squabbled among themselves

, which slowed down EU access to vaccines by several weeks.

This behaviour wasn’t just limited to vaccines. In early 2020, during the first wave of the virus, several EU countries including Germany and FranceThe UK didn’t cover itself in glory either – although it was the largest single contributor to Gavi, it alsoEssentially, national governments’ approach to procurement was to try to get as much for their own citizens as they could.

Bill Gates, meanwhile, has been saying for about a decade that a pandemic caused by a respiratory virus is coming. He suggested various models for preventing or rapidly responding to one, and this year his foundationAnd in September 2020, while the US, EU and UK were fighting each other for vaccines,Are these exactly the right ideas? Did the money go to the right places? Could it have been more efficiently managed? I don’t know – probably there are ways one could do it better.

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