An International coalition to find and distribute the COVID-19 vaccine in association with the WHO will not have the Trump administration in attendance.
The US government on Tuesday announced that it would not join an international group that discusses the findings and distributions of the COVID-19 vaccine across the world as the meeting would be led by the World Health Organization.
Why won’t Trump join the coalition? Why Trump is against the WHO?
A brief Flashback
After initially praising China and the WHO at the pandemic outset, Donald Trump has took back his words later.
In early April, Trump blasted the WHO with his words saying they misled the actual information about the coronavirus pandemic. He claimed that WHO is China-centric in its approach and he also stopped his funding to the organization.
Trump said that the World Health Organization knows about the pandemic outbreak way before but had gone along with China’s efforts to downplay the severity.
In Jule, Trump sent a letter to the organization regarding his withdrawal and said the country will not participate in any sort of effort that would be laid by the organization related to the development of vaccines.
Some Key Facts
- COVAX is led by the WHO, the Coalition for Economic Preparedness Innovations, and Gavi, which aims to purchase 2 billion doses of potential COVID-19 shots from several vaccine makers by the end of 2021 and plans to distribute it Worldwide.
- The WHO announced last week that the Covax plans to work with manufacturers to provide countries worldwide equitable access to safe and effective vaccines once they are licensed and approved.
- 172 countries can participate in discussions about vaccine development and the access.
- On Monday, the European Commission confirmed that it would contribute 400 million euros to the initiative, and the WHO said Germany had joined the pact a well.
- The spokesperson of the White House Judd Deere said that the country would engage with international partners to ensure the country defeats the virus but will not join the coalitions led by the WHO.
- The US has enough vaccine candidates in advanced clinical trials that it save itself from the virus without help from the WHO.
- The World Health Organization has warned against vaccine nationalism and said that for the world to recover faster it has to recover together as the economies are intertwined.
By Gayatri Yellayi
