Twenty-five heads of governments across the world on Tuesday called for global cooperation to protect the world from future health crises even as some of them enact measures at home in support of vaccine nationalism, a move that would have been ironic if it weren’t starved of humour.
Vaccine nationalism occurs when governments buy up supplies for their own people ahead of making them available for others. It belongs in the class of self-interest easily passed off as enlightened.
But there’s nothing enlightened about unbridled opportunism. A new report by British Medical Journal…
