Prognosis
WTO Holiday From Vaccine Equity Talks Draws Calls for Action
- EU, U.K., others are stalling while misery widens, critics say
- WHO chief criticizes the ‘moral failure’ of vaccine inequity
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An urgent global effort to rebalance the inequity between rich, vaccinated nations and poor nations sliding further into pandemic misery is colliding with an immovable calendar conflict: the European summer holiday.
Next week World Trade Organization delegates are planning to depart Geneva for their August break and, in doing so, pause their fractious debate over a proposal to waive intellectual-property protections for Covid-19 shots until the second week of September.